Polkerris
Polkerris is a small village on the south coast of Cornwall, England.
Polkerris is a small village on the south coast of Cornwall, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Fowey.
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Worth seeing in and around Polkerris
6 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 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.
2.8 km · castle in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Place
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.
3.1 km · Grade I listed English country house in Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church 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.
3.2 km · church in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Readymoney 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.
2.7 km · beach and cove near Fowey, in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The 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.
3.2 km · town hall in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Tregaminion 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.
400 m · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Polkerris
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 150 km · Bristol (BRS), 180 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 211 km
- Stations
- Par, 2.6 km · Par railway station, 2.5 km · Golant railway station, 3.9 km · Par Docks, 1.9 km
- Cardiff → Polkerris165 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £27–36
- Bristol → Polkerris192 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £22–30
- London → Polkerris345 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · £36–48
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Polkerris
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 Polkerris. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Polkerris – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Polkerris
- St Blazeytown in Cornwall3.6 km
- Polruanvillage in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Golantvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.9 km
- Tywardreathvillage in Cornwall, England, UK2.4 km
- Bodinnickvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Tywardreath and Parcivil parish in Cornwall, England2.3 km