One of England's most dramatic districts, Cornwall lies to the west of London, sticking out into the Atlantic and bordered by it on two coasts. Travelers by train out of Paddington Station would hit the Cornish border in a couple hours, passing first through bucolic Devon. Cornwall ends, appropriately, at Land's End, the furthest reach of England before arriving in America.
It all makes for a perfect weekend trip outside London. While many visitors and residents of the city alike head to the idyllic Cotswold countryside, Cornwall has been perceived as a little too rustic, remote and rugged. But that is changing. The Tate famously opened an outpost in St. Ives, former supermodel Jean Shrimpton owns an inn in Penzance, the popular TV series "Doc Martin" displays the charm of the fishing village Port Isaac where it was filmed, while the Sunday Times recently ran a story about Cornish cottages renting for nearly $15,000 a week. The Big Time has arrived.
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