St Mawes Castle, (EH) - St Mawes

Disabled parking near entrance there are steps down to the entrance (with handrail) or slopes for wheelchairs. Help is available easy access to castle for wheelchair users through shop and across drawbridge into main entrance floor and display area. Battlements and bastions are not accessible, and the spiral staircase to other floors is narrow. The Gardens are reached through side door via large, wide steps all parts of garden and defences are accessible on impacted gravel paths and smooth grass slopes. Benches are available. One toilet suitable for wheelchair users. For visually impaired visitors there are sounds of seabirds and a few scented plants in the garden.
Together with Pendennis Castle, St Mawes Castle was built by Henry VIII to guard the entrance to safe anchorage in the Carrick Roads. Its three huge circular bastions with gun ports were formidable defences indeed. Today it stands in delightful sub-tropical gardens.