Tregony is a small but thriving village community that has become known as ‘the gateway to the Roseland Peninsula’. Previously an active trading port, the village is a perfect base from which to explore the Roseland. By climbing Tregony Hill you can visit the site of a Roman Castle called ‘Tregney’.

Portloe, tucked far down in the Roseland Peninsula, is one of those small fishing hamlets that escaped the tourist boom of the 50's and 60's. Stoutly built cottages with slated grey roofs cluster around the shores of a small Cornish cove and along the lower slopes of the well sheltered and secluded valley. The National Trust own much of the surrounding land and there are walks to suit all tastes - that along the Heritage footpath to Nare Head is particularly recommended - a kaleidoscope of ever changing seascapes. The Luggar Hotel with a countrywide reputation is down the valley by the foreshore.

Described by Arthur Mee as 'A Cornish delight in a leafy dell', Veryan is a slightly haphazard grouping of cottages centred around an ancient 13th Century church and the traditional Inn. Certainly a village that retains its strong Cornish identity and shows every sign of much tender loving care. There are five curious round houses sitting under thatches, for all the world like some scaled-up version of the elusive piskey house. One could have a marvellous holiday here without straying more than a mile from the village green. The sandy beach of Gwendra is just over a mile away.

Two houses in a fold of a rolling hill in one of the most delightful country settings in Cornwall. They nestle comfortably in lawned gardens which run down to the river Ruan, a little stream about 5 ft wide, bubbling over a bed of pebbles. The two houses are separated by a path, a flower bed and the tiny mill stream which flows under a private bridge between these two houses. The King's Head, which offers pub food, is two hundred yards down the road.

An attractive small group of traditional cottages to one side of a lane in a rural hamlet about 1.5 miles from Portloe and 2.5 from the long sandy beach at Pendower. The villages of Tregony (3 miles) and Veryan (1.5 miles) have small shops and a village pub.