Polruan to Polperro, Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Name: Polruan to Polperro
Address: Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, United Kingdom

#19 among attractions in Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Polruan to Polperro is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Area of Conservation in south-east Cornwall, England, UK, noted for its biological interest. It contains a wide variety of plant species and is a site for populations of breeding birds. ()

Coordinates: 50°19'57"N, 4°35'16"W

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Polruan to Polperro – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: St Catherine's Castle, Tregaminion Church, St Sampson's Church, Sclerder Abbey.

2.5 miW
Forts and castles
St Catherine's Castle, Fowey
65 min walk • St Catherine's Castle is a Henrician castle in Cornwall, England, built by Thomas Treffry between approximately 1538 and 1540, in response to fears of an invasion of England by France and the Holy Roman Empire.
3.9 miW
Church
Tregaminion Church, Par
100 min walk • Tregaminion Church is a Church of England church in Tregaminion, Cornwall, England, UK. The church dates to the early 19th century and is a Grade II* listed building.
3.4 miNW
Church
St Sampson's Church, Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
87 min walk • St Sampson's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Golant, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; it is dedicated to St Sampson of Dol.
3.8 miE
Monastery
Sclerder Abbey, Looe
97 min walk • Sclerder Abbey is a former Carmelite monastery in Cornwall, England, UK, located between Looe and Polperro, which accommodates a Roman Catholic Community with an ecumenical vocation, which grew out of a prayer group in Lyon, France, in 1973.
2.2 miW
Museum, Vernacular architecture
Place House, Fowey
57 min walk • Place House is a Grade I listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England. Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth-century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Elizabeth Treffry.
2.8 miNW
Music and shows, Nightlife, Boat or ferry
Sawmills Studios, Fowey
71 min walk • Sawmills Studios, founded in 1974 by record producer Tony Cox, is a recording studio near Golant on the banks of the River Fowey in Cornwall. The studio building is located on its own tidal creek on the banks of the Fowey. Sawmills was one of the first residential recording facilities in the UK.
4.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Castle Dore, Par
105 min walk • Castle Dore is an Iron Age hill fort near Fowey in Cornwall, United Kingdom located at grid reference SX103548. It was probably occupied from the 5th or 4th centuries BC until the 1st century BC.
2.1 miW
50°19'40"N • 4°38'5"W
Polruan Ferry, Fowey
54 min walk • Boat or ferry, Transport, City hall
6.3 miNW
Church, Gothic architecture
St Bartholomew's Church, Lostwithiel
161 min walk • St Bartholomew's Church is a parish church of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
0.8 miE
Church
St Ildierna's Church, Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
22 min walk • St Ildierna's Church, Lansallos is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Lansallos, Cornwall, built in the early 14th Century. The church is noted for its 16th Century benches and bench ends. Serious damage was caused to the church, especially the roof, by a fire in 2005.
6.2 miNW
Archaeological site
Lostwithiel Stannary Palace, Lostwithiel
159 min walk • The Stannary Palace, also known as the Duchy Palace, circa 1265–1300, was a complex of buildings constructed by the Earls of Cornwall as the centre of their administration.