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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Tom Mulvihill

Why autumn is the best time to visit Cornwall

Empty beaches await when you swap summer for autumn - (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

After three months of traffic jams, grossly inflated prices and a crowded coastline, the summer season is over for another year and life in Cornwall has returned to normal again. Holidaying families have loaded up their roof boxes, and autumn is the time for locals to seize the opportunity to enjoy their county to the fullest.

The colder months do, however, see a second, smaller wave of tourists heading down to the tip of the South West. Those without children, by and large, who have discovered something that the people living down here already knew: that autumn is really the best time to experience Cornwall.

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