Padstow
With buildings dating from the Middle Ages, Padstow is a picture-postcard fishing village. Affectionately called "Padstein" by locals, Padstow is home to Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant and offers numerous eating places, estuary walks as well as boat and fishing trips from its picturesque harbour.
Rock
Across the estuary from Padstow (served by a passenger ferry), Rock has wide and beautiful sands and is the nearest beach to our cottages. Popular with the sailing fraternity, waterskiing, windsurfing, canoeing and fishing trips are also available here. For golfers there are two courses available at St Enodoc Golf Club, home to one of the finest links courses in the UK, and Trevose Head Golf Club is just a short drive away.
Daymer Bay and Polzeath
Just a short drive from the cottages the beaches of Daymer Bay and Polzeath have a huge appeal to all. Both are magnificent wide open spaces. Daymer is particularly popular with windsurfers and set back from the sandy beach is St Enodoc church, the final resting place of Sir John Betjeman. Polzeath is one of the best surfing beaches on in Cornwall, lessons are available here all year round. Here you will find breathtaking scenery of the cliffs and wonderful walking along the coastal path.
Port Isaac
This pretty fishing village was a busy coastal port from the Middle Ages to the mid 19th century. Fishing is still important in the village today, however visitors are drawn here to wander amongst the narrow twisting streets that wind their way down to the pretty harbour. Home of the popular TV series Doc Martin, the comedy Saving Grace was also filmed here.