The entire village of Trevalga is owned by Marlborough College - a public school in Wiltshire. It was left in trust so that the village and parish would remain unspoiled for future generations. There are a number of original old slate buildings that have remained unchanged for many decades.
The coastline around Trevalga is particularly spectacular with a number of rock stacks which provide homes for seabird colonies, including Long Island which is one of the last remaining atlantic puffin nesting places in Cornwall. On a headland next to coast path there is a rock arch known as The Lady's Window which you can walk through.
The Norman church (St Petroc's) is made of a stone known as Elvan or Greenstone which occurs in small pockets in North Cornwall and was highly valued by local stonemasons as it can be finely carved. The church tower was built a little later in the 13th Century and reworked in the 15th Century. The wheel-headed wayside cross next to the south door could be as old as 8th Century (just before Celtic Cornwall was conquered by the Anglo-Saxons).
You may want to visit Trevalga via our circular walk which also includes Rocky Valley and St Nectan's Glen.