[email protected] www.looeisland.co.uk www.looe-island.co.uk Site created and managed by Herodsfoot Webworks The incident was recorded in The Cornish Times under the headline H.M.S  St. George. Clensy, David (2006), Island Life: A History of Looe Island - pp. I'm Claire, and Looe Island is my home all year round. spring tides it is possible for the journey to be made by foot The waters around the island are a marine nature reserve[4] and form part of the Looe Voluntary Marine Conservation Area[5] (VMCA).

[7], In 1994/95 Andrew Hugill composed Island Symphony, an electro-acoustic piece utilising sampled sounds sourced over the net plus recorded natural sounds from the island itself. leaving the island to the In 2008, Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team visited the island to carry out an investigation into its early Christian history. from approximately Easter to around the end of September and the This is a The use of drones (UAVs) is not permitted over the nature reserve. Nazi  Airman's  Direct Hit Off Looe –  Another "Success" for  the  Luftwaffe’.

It was believed the island was mistaken for an Allied ship. // Array of day names [16], Coordinates: 50°20′12″N 4°27′07″W / 50.33664°N 4.45205°W / 50.33664; -4.45205. The adjoining islet, formerly known as Little Island,[13] now renamed Trelawny Island[14] and connected by a small bridge, was bequeathed by Miss Atkins back to the Trelawny family, who previously owned Looe Island from 1743 to 1921.[15]. also known as St George's Island, is a small island a mile from

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The island is normally accessible only by boat, but at low The island remained in the hands of the Trelawny family for a further three centuries.

She 15, Lulu.com, Cite error: The named reference "looe dig report" was defined multiple times with different content (see the, Weatherhill, Craig, Place Names in Cornwall and Scilly, Wessex Books, 2005, "Looe Voluntary Marine Conservation Area", "Looe, Cornwall Archaeological Evaluation and Assessment of Results", The Looe Island Story: an Illustrated History of St George's Island, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Looe_Island&oldid=980558611, Nature reserves of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, Articles containing Cornish-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 05:36. Size of reserve: 9 hectares / 22acres here with the child Christ. Visit Cornwall Wildlife Trust for more details about Looe Island. The Old Guildhall Museum in Looe hold information and research about the smuggling families of Looe Island and information is also available in the more recent publications about the island.

Unfortunately, dogs are not permitted on the island. Jetty cottage has a license for weddings and couples From the 13th to the 16th centuries it was known as St Michael's Island but after the dissolution of the monasteries, it was rededicated in 1594 as St George's Island. var monthNames = new Array("January","February","March","April","May","June","July", They excavated the sites of Christian chapels built on both the island and on the mainland opposite. OS map number: 107 Grid reference: SX 258 519 Best time to visit: summer. A natural sanctuary for sea and woodland birds which will welcome to Looe Island. recently it was owned (and inhabited) by two sisters, Babs and Although St. George has occupied the same berth for millennia, and is as well-known to inhabitants and visitors to Looe as  the palms of their hands, no one has determined to what particular class of battleship she belongs, indeed all are  familiar with the shapely  hulk lying seaward of Hannafore as Looe Island  (or, cartographically St. Georges Island)’. // These next lines of code execute when the script tag is parsed. purchase of the island and what it is like to live there. The island is now owned and managed by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust charity where access[3] is carefully managed for the benefit of wildlife and landing is only possible via the Cornwall Wildlife Trust authorized boatman. Daffodils bloom at Christmas and, unlike most small islands, it being devoted to conserving the island's natural beauty and to are on the Looe Island, like much of south west England, has a mild climate with frost and snow being rare. While it is normally accessible only by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust's boat, at extremely low spring tides it is possible for the journey to be made by foot across the slippery, seaweed-covered rocky sea floor. After a short welcome talk visitors are directed to the small visitor centre from where they can pick up a copy of the self-guided trail. document.write("Good morning and ") [1] Some scholars, including Glyn Lewis, suggest the island could be Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.[2]. Conservation Work At Sea if (h < 17) A small hoard of eight late Roman coins was recovered in 2008. Looe Island, Cornwall Wildlife Trust website.. var dayNames = new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"); The priory was replaced by a domestic chapel served by a secular priest[8] until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 when it became property of the Crown. its sequel Tales From Our Cornish Island (1986) — about the [7] A number of late prehistoric or Romano-British finds have been made in the vicinity of the island, including a large bronze ingot found by divers south of Looe Island, which has led a number of people to suggest the island is possibly Ictis, the tin trading island seen by Pytheas in the 4th century BC and recalled by Diodorus Siculus in the 1st century BC. Its highest point is 47 metres (154 ft) above sea level.