--- title: "Polkerris – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Polkerris, United Kingdom: Polkerris is a small village on the south coast of Cornwall, England. Nearby: St Catherine's Castle, Place, Church of St…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polkerris" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polkerris.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Cliffs_north_of_Polkerris_%289651%29.jpg/1920px-Cliffs_north_of_Polkerris_%289651%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Cornwall, England · United Kingdom # Polkerris Polkerris is a small village on the south coast of Cornwall, England. ![Polkerris](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Cliffs_north_of_Polkerris_%289651%29.jpg/1920px-Cliffs_north_of_Polkerris_%289651%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Polkerris · Nilfanion The place Polkerris is a small village on the south coast of Cornwall, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Fowey. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkerris), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. 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. 2.8 km · castle in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catherine%27s_Castle) 2. 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. 3.1 km · Grade I listed English country house in Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place,_Fowey) 3. 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. 3.2 km · church in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Fimbarrus,_Fowey) 4. 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. 2.7 km · beach and cove near Fowey, in Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymoney_Cove) 5. 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. 3.2 km · town hall in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowey_Town_Hall) 6. 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. 400 m · church in Cornwall, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tregaminion_Church) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 → Polkerris 165 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £27–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-polkerris) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Polkerris) - Bristol → Polkerris 192 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £22–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-polkerris) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Polkerris) - London → Polkerris 345 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · £36–48 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-polkerris) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Polkerris) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Polkerris) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around Driving 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 next During 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 next Both 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 93 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 242 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 465 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 583 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 617 km If you know how people move in Polkerris – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpolkerris&title=Polkerris&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpolkerris), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Polkerris - [St Blazey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/st-blazey) town in Cornwall 3.6 km - [Polruan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polruan) village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom 3.5 km - [Golant](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/golant) village in Cornwall, England, UK 3.9 km - [Tywardreath](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tywardreath) village in Cornwall, England, UK 2.4 km - [Bodinnick](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bodinnick) village in Cornwall, United Kingdom 3.6 km - [Tywardreath and Par](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tywardreath-and-par) civil parish in Cornwall, England 2.3 km [The place page for Polkerris](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/polkerris) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polkerris, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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