Polzeath

Polzeath is home to the Voluntary Marine Wildlife Reserve. Polzeath is also a dog free beach from Easter Day to October 1st. Polzeath and Daymer were favourite haunts of the late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, who lays at St Enodoc, and is celebrated in some of his verse. Another poet, Laurence Binyon wrote the Remembrance Day ode For the Fallen in 1914 while sitting on The Rumps, Polzeath or "Polseath" as it was then called.
Enid Blyton's Famous Five children were upset that their holiday would not be spent at Polzeath as was the norm. The authoress Joolz Denby lived in a caravan in Polzeath for a year while researching her novel Borrowed Light. The novel is largely set in Polzeath, though the town's name is changed to Polwenna to allow artistic licence with locations and buildings. The cartoonist Posy Simmonds created a fictitious place in Cornwall called Tresoddit. In 1991 the BBC made a short film "Tresoddit" that was filmed in and around Polzeath. 

The Greenaway

The Greenaway is the stretch of coast between Hayle Bay and Trebetherick Point, wherein lies Greenaway Beach. Home to many a tiny cowry shell and more coarser grained sand than that of Polzeath or Daymer. more...

Pentire Glaze Haven

Pentire Glaze Haven is a small sandy cove to the right of New Polzeath that becomes one with the main beach has the tide recedes. The footpath to Pentire Point passes this cove.

Polzeath Info

To the right of Polzeath lays New Polzeath. It is from here you access the footpath that leads to Pentire Head. From here, looking south you have commanding views over Hayle Bay and the Camel Estuary and Newland., the small islet off Pentire Point. Looking North from Pentire you are afforded with uninterrupted view over the Rumps and the Mouls towards Tintagel Castle island in the distance. To the left of Polzeath lays a flat level walk along past Greenaway beach and around Trebetherick Point to Daymer Bay and the Camel Estuary beyond. more...