Qualla: Port St Mary https://qualla.com/port-st-mary en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/port-st-mary-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Port St Mary https://qualla.com/port-st-mary Port St Mary: Introduction https://qualla.com/port-st-mary/ Photo credit Finn Bjorklid, Public domain. Drive in from Castletown on the A5, drop down past the Promenade and the cabbage palms, and you have arrived - but Port St Mary is not really the point of Port St Mary. The village is about two thousand people clinging to a sandy bay with a Victorian seafront and a working harbour. The point is what lies beyond it: a peninsula of yawning sandstone fissures, 300-foot cliffs, Bronze Age megaliths and a tidal sound where you can sit with a coffee and watch the Calf of Man four hundred yards away across a fierce tide race.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/port-st-mary-wk/gcse-port-st-mary-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Port St Mary: The Two Villages https://qualla.com/port-st-mary/ Photo credit Matthew Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The town has always been two settlements pretending to be one. Upper Village rides the bluff above Chapel Bay with the Promenade and its wind-scoured cabbage palms - those incongruously tropical-looking cordylines that thrive in the mild Manx Gulf Stream air. Lower Village curves...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/port-st-mary-wk/gcse-port-st-mary-the-two-villages.mp3 0:06 2 full Port St Mary: Walking to the Chasms https://qualla.com/port-st-mary/ Photo credit Richard Hoare, CC BY-SA 2.0. The headland south of the village is what people actually come for. On foot it is Fistard Road onto Chasms Road, paved but barely wide enough for two bicycles to pass and improbably steep where it should not be. By car it is the A31 to Cregneash and a praying descent down a singl...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/port-st-mary-wk/gcse-port-st-mary-walking-to-the-chasms.mp3 0:06 3 full Port St Mary: Cregneash and the Megaliths https://qualla.com/port-st-mary/ Photo credit Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0. Continue past the Chasms and the lane delivers you to Cregneash, a hill-top hamlet preserved as the National Folk Museum - thatched cottages, working forge, native Manx Loaghtan sheep with four horns. Just before you reach it, atop Mull Hill, lies the Meayll Circle. Six paired bu...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/port-st-mary-wk/gcse-port-st-mary-cregneash-and-the-megaliths.mp3 0:06 4 full Port St Mary: The Sound, Spanish Head, the Calf https://qualla.com/port-st-mary/ Photo credit Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0. The road ends at The Sound, the southwestern tip of the Manx mainland. The cafe here opens daily and gives you the panoramic view: across the narrow tidal channel to the Calf of Man, a 600-acre island nature reserve where puffins, Manx shearwaters and seals breed. Boat trips run ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/port-st-mary-wk/gcse-port-st-mary-the-sound-spanish-head-the-calf.mp3 0:06 5 full Port St Mary: Eat, Sleep, Connect https://qualla.com/port-st-mary/ Photo credit Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0. Port St Mary itself has limited places to stay - Port Erin two miles north has more accommodation and is the practical base for a long stay. The Co-op on Bay View Road keeps daily hours from 8 AM to 10 PM. Ventosus on Athol Street by the harbour bottles British wine - which is to...

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