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This Cornish village inspired a Daphne du Maurier novel, and you can still walk straight into the world she wrote about ...
08/06/2026

This Cornish village inspired a Daphne du Maurier novel, and you can still walk straight into the world she wrote about 📖

Du Maurier lived in Fowey for most of her adult life and the town pretty much wrote her books for her. The estuary, the woods, the big houses across the water; they're all in there.

Rebecca's Manderley was based on Menabilly, the estate she rented just outside town for over 25 years. The opening line — "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" — was about a house you can still see today from a public footpath.

Have you ever visited Fowey?

05/06/2026

Wait til you see the view from this church 😯😍

These Cornish gardens look like another country entirely... 🍃Cornwall has a small, weird climate quirk: the Gulf Stream ...
03/06/2026

These Cornish gardens look like another country entirely... 🍃

Cornwall has a small, weird climate quirk: the Gulf Stream hits the coast here, the temperature rarely drops below freezing for long, and there's enough rain to support things that have absolutely no business growing this far north!

The Victorians figured this out, started importing plants from explorers in Asia and South America, and built a string of gardens that genuinely don't look like they belong in Britain.

Trebah — A subtropical ravine running down to its own private beach. Gunnera plants the size of small umbrellas, tree ferns from New Zealand, a wall of hydrangeas in summer that has to be seen to be believed.

Heligan — Buried under brambles for 70 years after WW1, rediscovered in 1990. Restored by the same Tim Smit who later did the Eden Project. The Jungle valley is the centrepiece.

Glendurgan — A cherry laurel maze planted in 1833, gardens running down to a beach pub on the Helford River. Smaller, quieter, easier to do in a half-day.

Have you visited these amazing spots?

01/06/2026

Is this the most cinematic village in Cornwall? ⛵️

Charlestown is a tiny harbour village just outside St Austell - an 18th century mining port, and the dock Alice sailed away from in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Tom Hardy filmed Taboo here. Doctor Who landed a pirate ship in the harbour for The Curse of the Black Spot. Mansfield Park, Treasure Island (1950), The Three Musketeers, The Eagle Has Landed - all of them filmed here!

And of course, five series of Poldark.

Go early and the cobbles around the tall ships. The lower light in the morning catches the masts in a way that makes you understand why every location scout in Britain ends up here eventually!

What's the film or show you've seen it in?

The Cornish village that's smaller than its own car park ⚓️👇Not even exaggerating - you've basically seen the whole plac...
28/05/2026

The Cornish village that's smaller than its own car park ⚓️👇

Not even exaggerating - you've basically seen the whole place by the time you've finished your pasty!

Cadgwith 📍is a working harbour, with a handful of cottages stacked on top of each other, and a sea wall you can sit on for hours watching crab boats come in.

Tell me there's a smaller village in Cornwall. I dare you.

A man in his 60s died on Tregirls Beach near Padstow yesterday afternoon. He ran into the sea to help two family members...
26/05/2026

A man in his 60s died on Tregirls Beach near Padstow yesterday afternoon.

He ran into the sea to help two family members who'd got into difficulty, and suffered a cardiac arrest. The two relatives were brought to safety by other people on the beach. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

At the same time, the BBC have issued a reminder to be aware of the possibility of COLD WATER SHOCK, especially on a day like today, the hottest May day on record. Because while the air temperature might be 28°C, the sea around Cornwall is still sitting at around 14°C.

Your body hits cold water, your blood vessels slam shut, your heart rate spikes, you involuntarily gasp, and if your head's underwater when that gasp happens, you inhale water straight into your lungs. It can cause cardiac arrest in people who are otherwise fit and healthy. It doesn't matter how strong a swimmer you are.

If you're heading to the coast this week, please be careful! If you see someone in trouble, the advice is the same every time: don't go in. Call 999. Stay on the sand.
Our thoughts are with the family in Padstow.

My best spot to take in the sights and sounds of Polperro. What an amazing Bank Holiday!
25/05/2026

My best spot to take in the sights and sounds of Polperro. What an amazing Bank Holiday!

24/04/2026

CAR GOING up the WRONG SIDE OF THE A30 on Bodmin Moor.
They were in the fast lane FLASHING. We nearly had a head on crash, swerved to miss.
They were Going North or Eastbound on the Westbound, South bound highway.
LET ANYONE ELSE KNOW IF ON A30

Bloody madness. They must have turned right off the Moor somehow?

06/04/2026

St Ives looking truly beautiful

Porthmeor Beach. St Ives
05/04/2026

Porthmeor Beach. St Ives

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