Fal Stories

Informative exhibition exploring unique perspectives and experiences of the River Fal.

The Fal River watershed is a fascinating area encompassing a wide range of habitats, communities and working environments. The area is unusual in its seamless mix of traditional pursuits and enterprising new agricultural endeavours.

Coombe for example – a village in a creek of the Fal – is unique in its historically intact and vernacular distinctiveness, appearing largely unchanged for the best part of a century. While on the opposite bank, the Tregothnan Estate produce a renowned range of home-grown black tea, green tea and herbal infusions.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust are working to study and restore dwarf seagrass (vital for supporting a diverse underwater ecosystem and with the potential to capture huge amounts of carbon) in the Fal Estuary.

Grassroots organisations such as Friends of the Fal work to promote social inclusion, community development with the ethos ‘If Nature Thrives – We All Thrive’.

This informative exhibition aims to celebrate some of the diverse approaches undertaken along this extraordinary watercourse – to show elements of this creek through time as a workplace, a living community and potentially, a positive case study in efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

Fal Stories runs August 30th 2025 – February 28th 2026.