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Delabole
Ruby Cottage is located next to the village hairdressers on the B3314. Delabole is famous for its historic slate quarry and provides a convenient base for a holiday - there are two pubs, several shops (including a very well stocked grocery shop), post office, hairdressers, garage and fish & chip shop. Trebarwith Strand, which is a beautiful sandy beach at low tide and popular with surfers is about 1¼ miles away by road (nearer if you are willing to walk), where the Port William pub has good fresh food and fine views. Tregardock Beach is a little further and as the last mile or so only accessible by foot, it guarantees a quiet spot even in the height of the summer. Other beaches and seaside villages nearby are only a short drive. Within the village, there are the Ferndale farm coarse fishing lakes. There is an indoor swimming pool in nearby Camelford .
North Cornwall
The area from the River Camel north to Bude covers a mixture of great cliffs and beaches with a walking trail along the entire coast providing exhilarating views and bird-friendly cliffs Polzeath , Trebarwith , Widemouth Bay, Bude , and Sandy Mouth offer great sand/surf beaches (lessons available at Polzeath ) and at Port Gaverne , Bossiney and Crackington Haven, there are charming sandy coves. Rock, also sandy, is an ideal place for watersports , including sailing on the Camel estuary and a very fine golf course (St Enodoc ) – in the summer you can take the ferry across to the picturesque fishing village of Padstow where celebrity chef, Rick Stein has a choice of restaurants. Other golf courses can be found at Bowood House and St Kew. There are tiny fjords at Port Quin and Boscastle and Port Isaac is probably the prettiest fishing village in the area with its cliff-enclosed harbour (backdrop to the TV programme “Doc Martin”. The Camel Trail offers a cycleway (bikes for hire) from Bodmin Moor beside the Camel to Padstow . Nearby Pencarrow is a beautiful house with wonderful gardens where you can pick your own fruit in summer. Tintagel has a ruined castle said to be that of King Arthur's situated on a wild headland. Bodmin Moor with with its two peaks Rough Tor and Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall , provides open moorland walking with visible evidence of prehistoric settlements and stone circles. You can also visit the Heritage Centre at Minions detailing the local mining industry and its history. Blisland , on the moor's northern edge, is one of Cornwall 's prettiest villages. A day out to the restored “ Lost Gardens of Heligan ” and/or the Eden Project make a change from the beach.
Useful links:
www.delabole.com
www.cornwalltouristboard.co.uk
www.northcornwall-live.com
www.shimbo.co.uk
www.intocornwall.com
www.rswsc.co.uk
www.surfsupsurfschool.com
www.gardensofcornwall.com
www.cornwallflyingclub.com
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