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154  ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST REGION B Y REGION

Exploring Cornwall Barnstaple or
Hartland Bideford Bay Bideford
Cornwall’s few major roads – forced to remain inland by the Point Clovelly
rugged serrated coastline of the north, and the deep river Hartland Buck’s Landcross
valleys and rolling peninsulas of the south – reveal little of Cross
the country’s beauty or character. Inland attractions include Meddon
the Eden Project and Bodmin Moor, while along the coast and Morewenstow Torridge Stibb
Cross
river estuaries of the south are the Lost Gardens of Heligan, the Eastcott
scenic villages of Fowey and St Mawes, and numerous sandy
beaches. On the northern coast are arty St Ives, food mecca Kilkhampton
Padstow, and Arthurian Tintagel, along with surfers’ paradises BUDE Holsworthy
Beacon
Bude and Newquay. Every nook and cranny of the 483-km Portheras Cove, a beach on one of the wildest Holsworthy
(300-mile) coast can be accessed by the South West Coast Path. stretches of Cornish Coast in Penwith Bude Bay Marhamchurch
Widemouth
Clawton
Whitstone Tamar
Roadford
Lake
BOSCASTLE Bridgetown
0 kilometres 10 TINTAGEL Hallworthy
0 miles 10 Launceston
Port Isaac Lydford
Bay Altarnun
Delabole Camelford Milton
Port Isaac Lewannick Abbot
Trevose St Teath North
Head Hill Coad's
Green
BODMIN MOOR Tavistock
PADSTOW Camel Kelly Gulworthy
Constantine Wadebridge Colliford
Bay CORNWALL Reservoir Pensilva Callington Tavy
Watergate St Mawgan BODMIN Liskeard
Bay St Mellion Bere Plym
St Columb Victoria Fowey St Keyne Trerulefoot Ferrers
Visitors admiring exotic plants in the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project NEWQUAY Major
Lostwithiel Duloe Saltash
Ligger Bay Indian Queens EDEN
St Germans
Key Carland Fal PROJECT LOOE Torpoint Plymouth
Cross
St Blazey
Perranporth
Dual carriageway ST FOWEY Whitsand Plymstock
Main road St Agnes Ladock AUSTELL Polperro Bay Rame Newton
Other road Three LOST GARDENS OF St. Austell Ferrers
Burrows Bay
Railway HELIGAN
Portreath
County border TRURO Mevagissey
Redruth
ST IVES Portloe
Camborne St Just-
Zennor in-Roseland
Lelant Hayle
Penryn
Pendeen Leedstown FALMOUTH ST MAWES
St Just
PENZANCE
PENWITH TOUR Newlyn HELSTON Mawnan Smith
Helford
Mousehole Helford
Sennen ST MICHAEL'S Porthleven
MOUNT
Land’s Porthcurno St Keverne
End
Coverack
Mullion
Ruan Minor
Kynance Cove THE LIZARD
Lizard Point
Scilly Isles
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp178–9 and pp190–91
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