Zennor is a tiny village on the B3306 between St Ives and St Just in Penwith, set back slightly from the wild north Penwith coast. The village is little more than a cluster of granite cottages, a church, and a pub, but it has a distinctive character and makes an excellent stopping point on the coastal road.
St Senara's Church is the main sight: a sturdy granite building with an ancient font, a 15th-century bench end carved with a mermaid — Zennor's emblem and the subject of a local legend — and a squint (a narrow angled opening in the chancel wall that allowed those in a side chapel to see the altar). The Wayside Museum, housed in a converted miller's cottage, covers the history of the village and the surrounding farming community.
The Tinners Arms pub is the social heart of the village and serves good food. D.H. Lawrence lived in Zennor briefly during the First World War, writing part of Women in Love here before being expelled from Cornwall under the wartime Defence of the Realm Act.
The headland above the village — Zennor Head — is one of the best on the north Penwith coast, with dramatic cliff scenery and views east to St Ives. Zennor Quoit, a Neolithic burial chamber on the open moorland a mile east, is one of the finest megalithic monuments in Cornwall.