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Extract from the Falmouth Travel Guides:
The construction of Pendennis Castle on the southern point of Carrick Roads in the sixteenth century prepared the ground for the growth of
FALMOUTH
, then no more than a fishing village. The building of its deepwater harbour was proposed a century later by Sir John Killigrew, and Falmouth's prosperity was assured when in 1689 it became chief base of the fast Falmouth Packets, which sped mail to the Americas. However, recent years have seen the port's character submerged beneath waves of tourist traffic attracted to the lush beaches to the south of town, and the long
High Street
and its continuations Market and Church...
read the whole Falmouth Travel Guides...
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