Tourist Information
Beaches
We have some children’s wetsuits, body boards and windbreaks which you are welcome to use.
There are many beautiful beaches to visit and explore.
Here are some of our favourites:
- 10.5 miles
- Great for surfing
- Restaurants and body boarding
- Toilets
- Easy access
- Car Park pay
- 12 miles
- Great for surfing and paddle boarding
- Coffee / ice cream
- Crabbing for kids along the River Gannel
- Toilets
- Easy access
Car Park, pay (free for National Trust members)
- Also know as Porth Joke
- 14 miles
- Very charming, pretty beach with caves and rock pools
- Access by walking down from Cubert Common or along coast path from Crantock or West Pentire
- Parking at West Pentire
- No toilets
- 15 miles
- Huge expansive beach, caves
- Restaurants, cafes, pub,
- Toilets
- Car park
- 11.5 miles
- Great for surfing
- Right in Newquay with all it has to offer
- 10.5 miles
- Beautiful family beach on north coast
- Large parking area
- Toilets
- 15 miles
- Great coastal walks from here
- Large parking area
- Toilets
- Along the South Cornwall coast about half an hour from No3. You’ll find spectacular coastline, hidden coves and beaches, wooded river valleys and estuaries, fantastic sailing waters, cliff-top walks, lush sub-tropical gardens and harbour towns and villages.
- A short drive from No 3
- A must to visit.
- Park on top road near Crugmeer and walk down to the beach and along shoreline (tide permitting) or coastal path into Padstow for a spot of lunch!
Nearby places of interest to visit
- 11 miles
- 6 miles
- Museum on local clay mining industry
- 10 miles
- Historic harbour near St Austell
- 15 miles
- Picturesque town with natural harbour
- 13 miles
- Historic fishing village
- 15 miles
- A charming working fishing port at the head of the Camel River
- Lots of restaurants, cafés and shops
- 15 miles
- Beautiful cliff top walk
- Wild flowers in Spring/Summer
- 10.5 miles
A sheltered cove West of Fowey
Daphne du Maurier country.
Car park half a mile away.
No toilets.
Places to eat
- C-Bay Bar and Bistro, between Crantock and Polly Joke Beaches
- De Bara Bakery, other side of A30 near St. Dennis
- Catch, Morgan Porth
- The Stable, Fistral
- The Hidden Hut, a beach cafe on Porthcurnick Beach
- Lewinnick Lodge, near Newquay, great views from restaurant
- The Smugglers Den, Trebellan, Cubert
Walks
- Lovely local walks around the lanes and footpaths around Saint Dennis
- The Clay Trails are a network of short walking, cycling and horse riding trails through mid-Cornwall an area of great contrast and beauty.
- 22 miles from St. Dennis
- Cornwall’s highest hill located among the rocky outcrops and desolate reaches of Bodmin Moor
One of Cornwalls hidden gems. Footpaths through lush woodland. Interesting remains of previous industrial activity, including a water wheel and the stunning Teffry Vaiduct.
- 6.5 miles from Saint Dennis
- A large and impressive Iron Age hill fort with extensive and panoramic views across central Cornwall to both north and south coasts. It dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850 feet in diameter and standing 700 feet above sea level.
- South coast walk
- Lovely circular Tresillian River woodland walk with lunch on the riverside at The Heron Inn in Malpas.
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