Property News · June 15, 2012

Let's move to Whitsand Bay and Rame Head, Cornwall


This is the bit of Cornwall you never hear about, the bit you all nip past for pastures pricier and posherWhat’s going for it? This is the part of Cornwall you never hear about, the bit that you all nip past for pastures pricier and posher. What is it about the pull of Penzance and Padstow that makes you go, go, go, not stopping until you’ve got as far as you can? Is it a macho thing? Stop awhile, just over the Tamar bridge. This is Cornwall enough. In fact, it’s more Cornwall than the rest of the county. It even sells itself as Cornwall’s Forgotten Corner©. It has pilchard sheds, fishing villages, sandy beaches and coves straight outta Enid Blyton. It has grizzly fishermen (Looe harbour still hums). It has austere, 14th-century chapels, such as the one at Rame Head, last sight of England for sailors leaving Plymouth Sound. It has slipways, smuggling yarns, surfers and shags drying their wings. It has steep, crumbling cliffs. It has property prices less super-charged than the rest of Cornwall. Ooh, and it has St Germanus church, with its stark stone steeple. And the sound of nothing. No one. Because all you tourists are still on the A38.The case against That said, it has enough holiday homes, gentrification and DFEs (Down From Englanders). Other than that, it’s perfect. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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