The Uninhabited Islands

There is poetry and humour in the names of the uninhabited Islands ... Men-a-vaur, Kettle Bottom, Hunter's Lump, Great Cheese Rock.

And each has their own mystery to unfold...

Both Tean and St. Helen's have the remains of early Christian chapels, and St. Elidius, a British bishop and son of an English King, is though to be buried on St. Helen's.

Round Island has its iconic lighthouse.

Samson is more spacious and welcoming, with its gently rounded hills crowned with abundant prehistoric monuments.

The Norrard Rocks to thenorth-west are more wild, a playground for seals and hunting ground for countless sea-birds.

The Western Rocks are a permanent memorial to the countless ships and seamenlost before Bishop Rock - a 50metre rock column, totally covered at spring high tides, was successfully crowned with the UK's most South-Westerly lighthouse.

The Eastern Isles are another favourite seal playground and a haunt of peregrine falcons.