Nice to see a little sanity returning to Medialand with Falmouth now having been chosen as one of the top eight in the annual Sunday Times Best Places To Live guide.
It was a welcome record-straightener after the absurd “most depressing town” verdict that did the national rounds a few weeks earlier.
It’s not exactly up for debate, after all, is it? Those of us lucky enough to live in the place don’t let a day go by without counting our blessings.
And writers have been singing its praises since the year dot. Well, at least as far back as 1891, when the Guide To Falmouth, by R N Worth, was published and included the following:--
The praises of Falmouth were well remarked by (an unnamed) writer in Blackwood, who had visited the port whilst on a yachting excursion:--
“We had often heard people talk about Falmouth, but neither they nor the geography books prepared us for the sight which met us, as we rounded the lighthouse headland, of a large fleet of merchantmen lying at anchor in the spacious harbour. We counted upwards of 50 large sail, besides several steamers . . .
“ . . . For people with young children at the spade-and-bucket age, Falmouth is surely the very one to suit.
“There never was such a beach for shells – they are literally in myriads. The beach is made up of them. There are miles of rocks, too, where the receding tide leaves endless successions of crystal ponds full of seaweed and prawns, and green crabs, and anemones, and other delightful objects.
“Then for older folk there is the ever-present beauty of the broken coastline, and walking around Pendennis Castle, on the projecting point which forms one side of the harbour, and makes an admirable lounge for indifferent walkers, you come upon the harbour and all the shipping.
“A day at Falmouth must be worth a month at Brighton.”
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