Polbathic
Polbathic is a small village situated on the A374 Trerulefoot to Torpoint road, within the parish of St Germans, in south-east Cornwall, England, UK.
Polbathic is a small village situated on the A374 Trerulefoot to Torpoint road, within the parish of St Germans, in south-east Cornwall, England, UK. The village is situated on the edge of a tidal creek, known as Polbathick Lake, which is a branch of the River Tiddy and River Lynher river system. Polbathick Lake is within the Lynher Estuary SSSI.
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Worth seeing in and around Polbathic
3 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.
- 01St German's Priory
St Germans Priory is a former Augustinian priory church in the village of St Germans, Cornwall, England. Originating as the seat of the Saxon bishops of Cornwall, the present building is largely Norman, with significant extensions in the 14th and 15th centuries and later restoration in the Victorian period.
1.4 km · church building in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Port Eliot
Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which serves as the parish church of St Germans.
1.5 km · Grade I listed country house in St Germans, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Anne
St Anne's Church is a former Church of England parish church in the village of Hessenford in Cornwall. It is dedicated to St Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
4 km · church in Hessenford, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Polbathic
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 132 km · Bristol (BRS), 158 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 216 km
- Stations
- St Germans railway station, 1.4 km
- Cardiff → Polbathic145 km · quickest by road, 4h · £24–31
- Bristol → Polbathic170 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £19–25
- London → Polbathic319 km · quickest by road, 5h 51m · £33–44
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No local-transport research exists yet for Polbathic
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 Polbathic. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is also a ferry service in the summer (from Cawsand Bay to Plymouth Hoe).
- Get inBy car via the Torpoint ferry, by passenger ferry from Stonehouse in Plymouth to Cremyll and then by bus, or usually, by boat from the Barbican area of Plymouth.
- Get aroundA very pleasant day can be had by doing a round trip: getting across by boat from the barbican and then taking a bus to Cremyll (infrequent) and catching the ferry across the Tamar.
From Wikivoyage: Cawsand, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-05.
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