The village is on a peninsula between the Helford River and Gillan Harbour on the west side of Falmouth Bay, five miles south of Falmouth and seven miles east of Helston at. It largely consists of a church and holiday lets owned by a local holiday company that is based in the village. The peninsula ends at Dennis Head, the site of an early Celtic fortress. The parish is divided by Gillan Harbour and the tidal Gillan Creek. The village and parish church are on the north side of Gillan Harbour. South of the harbour are the hamlets of Carne, Flushing and Gillan, and further inland the small ancient settlements of Boden and Trewarnevas. The South West Coast Path runs along both shores of Gillan Harbour, and crosses Gillan Creek on stepping stones only passable at low tide. The path then rounds Dennis Head and leaves the parish on the south shore of the Helford River. St Anthony-in-Meneage lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to St Anthony and is situated near Gillan Harbour. It is medieval though parts are of different dates, a window in the chancel is the earliest and the north aisle with an arcade of plain octagonal piers somewhat later. The tower was built in the 15th century of granite blocks at the west end. The font is ornamented with angels and a Latin inscription and is probably of the 15th century.
Bosahan
Bosahan House was a 19th-century country estate with a large house, which was demolished in 1884. The Member of Parliament for West Cornwall, A Pendarves Vivian MP bought the estate at an auction in 1882, when the estate was described as having a ″fine residential mansion″. Also included in the sale were the three farms of Halvose, Passage and Treath as well as some fishing and ferry rights on the River Hal. At the time of the auction the estate covered in the parishes of St Anthony, Manaccan and Constantine, and was originally developed by the Grylls family. The 1884 house was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by a smaller house. In 1909, The Gardeners' magazine described the garden which had been developed over the previous 25 years, as ″the most Cornish of all Cornish gardens″. Bosahan Garden is open to visitors.
