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- gemm Kernewek! Welcome to Polperro Narrow, winding streets and alleys, cottages perched on steep slopes overlooking a tiny harbour - Polperro is everyone's idea of a picturesque Cornish fishing village - visit and you may want to stay - for ever |
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Click here or on image to visit the Claremont Hotel's website or telephone 01503 272 241 |
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  3 bedrooms, sleeps up to 6 Centre of Polperro - garden & patio Contemporary style - well equipped Wi-fi broadband included in price more on our website - click here |
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So, you thought your move was difficult? Moving house in Polperro - the full story |
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Our latest holiday cottage is 16th century
- Waterside Cottage - right on the harbourside. See this and all our other accommodation listings - click here |
| Polperro Heritage Museum of Smuggling & Fishing | |
| The museum vividly brings to life the story of this Cornish fishing village's extraordinary history of smuggling and fishing and many of the colourful characters involved in each of these | |
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Open every day from Easter until end of October from 10:30am until
4:30pm (opens/closes 30 mins earlier/later in high season) Admission charges: Adults & children over 12 years £2, children 5-12 years 50p, children under 5 years - free More on our Museum page - click here |
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| Recollections
of a Victorian childhood Read the charming recollections of Muriel Jerram who grew up in Victorian and Edwardian times in Talland and Polperro. This is a 25 page PDF document with illustrations. Thanks to her great niece Frances Impey who has kindly allowed us to make the recollections available online - click here for a free download. You will need an acrobat reader on your computer - if you haven't got one click on the adobe logo below to go to www.adobe.com for a free download 
www.polperro.org - 1 June 2012 To visit the Talland website - click here |
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| The Porthpyra
Singers are a mixed choir which practises on Monday evenings
at Polperro Primary School. Fancy joining? Would you like to
attend one of their concerts or have them sing at the charitable fund-raising
event you are organising? Visit their website for more details |
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 Polperro
Arts Foundation is the gallery and studio for the local artists
and craftspeople of Polperro and the surrounding area. The studio-gallery
is a beautiful large space overlooking Polperro's historic harbour
and the fish quay. Founded ten years ago it is continuing Polperro's
long association with the arts and crafts and has existed as a studio-gallery
for nearly 50 yrs. It has a broad membership of artists, photographers
and craftspeople supported by many friends and sponsors including
the Lottery Fund. Visit their website - click here |
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 Polperro
Environmental Group (PEG) is a collective and creative
group moving towards a low-energy, resilient and self-sustaining community
using local skills, knowledge, wisdom and alternative technologies.
The group supports the Transition Movement in the UK and is working
towards becoming a Transition Village in the future. Visit the PEG website |
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| Polperro
Knitfrocks feature on BBC TV's "Coast" Ruth Goodman, one of TV's most popular "living historians", who came to fame through "The Victorian Farm" and other programmes, was featured on a recent edition of the major BBC television documentary series Coast . Ruth came to Polperro to learn about "Polperro Knitfrocks" - jerseys worn by fishermen and knitted by the women (and the men) of the village. Ruth learned from Mary Wright, the author of the definitive book on Knitfrocks how the village became a hand knitting "factory" as a result of the expertise of the knitters and the popularity of the woollen knitfrocks or jerseys which had become the standard uniform of fishermen. More information and photos on our knitfrocks page - and a link to Polperro Heritage Press which publishes Mary Wright's book and can be purchased online. www.polperro.org - news - 20 April 2013 |
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to do at (and from) Polperro? 1. Explore Polperro - narrow winding streets & lanes with great views of the picturesque harbour and village at every turn - bring lots of spare film or memory cards. 2. Browse the eclectic mixture of quirky and fascinating shops. 3. Enjoy the selection of great pubs, cafes and restaurants. 4. Visit Polperro's unique Heritage museum of fishing and smuggling and learn about Polperro's colourful past*. 5. And, when you've done all that, there are wonderful coastal walks on the South West Coastal Path - east to Talland Bay and Looe, west to Lansallos, Lantic Bay and Polruan. 6. There are boat trips and 7. shark fishing. 8. Cornwall's biggest tourist attraction -The Eden Project - is an easy 30 mins drive (open all year). 9. Three National Trust houses are within easy reach - Lanhydrock, Antony House and Cotehele (Cotehele is open in December for viewings of its famous Christmas Garlands). 10. There are superb Cornish gardens to visit including Headland at nearby Polruan. 11. Visit Looe - Polperro's bigger neighbour and 11. Take a boat trip to Looe Island. 12. Polruan & Fowey - take the Bodinnick car ferry or Polruan foot ferry and enjoy this historic town and its beautiful river estuary. 13. Liskeard - a bustling market town with some notable victorian architecture and an interesting museum - 14. go there by train on the Looe Valley line from Looe for the best views. There's 101 things to do at and from Polperro - we've not enough space on this page to list the remaining 87 - but we're working on a new page that will! *The Polperro Heritage Museum is open daily (including Sundays) between 11am and 5pm from March until October. |
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really does matter in PolperroResidents and businesses in Polperro, fed up with their properties being damaged by vans and large vehicles trying to navigate the narrow lanes have issued some friendly advice to delivery vehicle drivers. Cllr Edwina Hannaford, Cornwall Councillor for West Looe and Lansallos has sent supplies of a new flyer to supermarket companies and delivery firms to give to their drivers and it urges them to use the special off-loading area by the bus stop in the village centre and not to attempt to reach their delivery address in their van or lorry. Copies of the new flyer will also be available to residents to give to delivery drivers - click here to see the new flyer. www.polperro.org - news - 9 May 2012 Visit our jammed page to see and learn how you can't just trust your satnav when it comes to narrow streets |
