Charming adjacent parishes in rolling countryside broken by pretty wooded valleys.
Separated from the coast by the River Allen and from Bodmin Moor by the River Camel, both villages have a church, pub and post office stores. Both are about 6 miles from the North Coast at Port Isaac and 8 miles from the sand and surf at Polzeath and the water sports of the Camel Estuary. The nearest towns are Wadebridge 6 miles and Bodmin and Camelford 8 miles. The Eden Project and the many lovely gardens of central Cornwall are about half an hours drive.

A really splendid example of a 'quaint old Cornish town'. Described by John Betjeman as a 'highly picturesque fishing port with narrow almost perpendicular lanes, slate-hung houses, little gardens in front of them with shells in them brought by Old Salts from the Indian Ocean, a Lifeboat Institution and an old Inn right down on the harbour'.
This admirably captures the atmosphere of this attractive place with its small beach and harbour in a re-entrant between magnificent cliffs. There is a good selection of small shops, and parking is possible on the beach at low tide.