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Golant

Golant is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Golant
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The place

Golant is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the west bank of the River Fowey and in the civil parish of St Sampson.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Golant

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Catherine's Castle

    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. The D-shaped, stone fortification, equipped with five gun-ports for cannon, overlooked the mouth of the River Fowey in Cornwall.

    3.9 km · castle in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Winnow

    St Winnow's Church, St Winnow is a Grade I listed parish church in St Winnow, Cornwall, England. The present building dates primarily from the 15th century, incorporating earlier Norman fabric, and includes a west tower and south aisle added in the later Middle Ages.

    2.3 km · church in St Winnow, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Place

    Place is a fortified house and 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 1457 by Elizabeth Treffry.

    3 km · Grade I listed English country house in Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Sampson's Church

    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. St Sampson's features in Simon Jenkins's book England's Thousand Best Churches, in which it is described as "warm and welcoming".

    400 m · church in Golant, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Fimbarrus Or St Nicholas

    The Church of St Fimbarrus is an Anglican parish church in Fowey, Cornwall, England. Also known as Fowey Parish Church, it is in the Church of England's Diocese of Truro.

    3.1 km · church in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tregaminion Church

    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.

    3.8 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Readymoney Cove

    Readymoney Cove is a sandy beach to the south of the harbour town of Fowey, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is sheltered by cliffs close to the mouth of the River Fowey estuary and bounded, on one side, by the medieval part of the town of Fowey and, on the other, by St Catherine's Castle.

    3.8 km · beach and cove near Fowey, in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Cyricius and St Julietta's Church

    St Cyricius and St Julietta's Church, St Veep is a Grade I listed parish church of Church of England in St Veep, Cornwall.

    1.8 km · church in St Veep, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Town Hall

    Fowey Town Hall is a municipal building on the Town Quay in Fowey, Cornwall, England. The structure, which serves as meeting place of Fowey Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.1 km · town hall in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Willow

    St Wyllow's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall, England. The building has Norman origins and was largely rebuilt in the late 14th and 15th centuries in the Perpendicular Gothic style.

    4 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Golant

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 147 km · Bristol (BRS), 176 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 214 km
Stations
Golant railway station, 200 m
  • Cardiff → Golant
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · £26–35
  • Bristol → Golant
    188 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £22–29
  • London → Golant
    341 km · quickest by road, 5h 16m · £36–48
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Golant

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Golant. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundDriving isn't recommended, especially for those who get scared driving through very narrow streets, and there is little parking available in the town itself, so parking either in the "Central Carpark" at the top of the hill (the main road into Fowey now takes you straight to it) or driving in the back way and parking at "Caffa Mill Carpark" (next to the Bodinnick Ferry) is generally advised and both of these are serviced by the town bus service.
  • Go nextDuring the summer months there's a regular passenger ferry between Mevagissey and Fowey, which is a nice way to spend 30 minutes on a sunny day.
  • Go nextBoth ends of the walk are linked to Fowey by ferry, and the walk gives wonderful views of Fowey, the river and its tributaries.

From Wikivoyage: Fowey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    239 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 21 sources

    465 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    581 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    614 km

If you know how people move in Golant – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Golant

  • St Winnowvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England2.4 km
  • St Veepvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England1.7 km
  • Tywardreathvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.8 km
  • Lantegloscivil parish and hamlet in south Cornwall, England2 km
  • St Sampsoncivil parish in Cornwall, England1.9 km
  • Tywardreath and Parcivil parish in Cornwall, England3.8 km