A Hostel A Week

This week, going south and abandoning alphabetical order – Lands End and Penzance.

There have been four youth hostels in the Penzance and Land’s End area. Lelant Downs was the first, a small accommodation hostel operating up to the war. Land’s End hostel opened on the brink of war, was requisitioned, and established again, soon after hostilities ended.

Hayle hostel was next, running from 1947 to the end of 1982. Penzance was the most recent acquisition, in 1949.

At the tip of Cornwall, Land’s End and Penzance have between them contributed over 140 years of youth hostel provision.

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