--- title: "Polruan – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Polruan, United Kingdom: Polruan is a coastal village in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Nearby: St Catherine's…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polruan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polruan.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Polruan_blockhouse_from_Fowey_%289732%29.jpg/1920px-Polruan_blockhouse_from_Fowey_%289732%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Cornwall, England · United Kingdom # Polruan Polruan is a coastal village in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. ![Polruan](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Polruan_blockhouse_from_Fowey_%289732%29.jpg/1920px-Polruan_blockhouse_from_Fowey_%289732%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Polruan · Nilfanion The place Polruan is a coastal village in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is bounded on three sides by water: to the north by Pont Creek, to the west by the River Fowey and to the south by the English Channel and neighbouring village Bodinnick to the north, connected by a 4-mile walk along the hill tops. Polruan is very steep and well protected from the prevailing winds and Polruan Pool is a haven for small boats. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polruan), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Polruan 7 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 Castle in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK 800 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catherine%27s_Castle) 2. Place Grade I listed English country house in Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom 1 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place,_Fowey) 3. Church of St Fimbarrus Or St Nicholas Church in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK 900 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Fimbarrus,_Fowey) 4. Tregaminion Church Church in Cornwall, England, UK 3.2 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tregaminion_Church) 5. Readymoney Cove Beach and cove near Fowey, in Cornwall, England, UK 900 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymoney_Cove) 6. Church of St Willow Church in Cornwall, England, UK 1.9 km · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Wyllow,_Lanteglos-by-Fowey) 7. The Town Hall Town hall in Fowey, Cornwall, England, UK 900 m · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowey_Town_Hall) 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 Polruan **Airports:** Cardiff (CWL), 149 km · Bristol (BRS), 178 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 210 km\ **Stations:** Golant railway station, 3.8 km\ - Cardiff → Polruan 164 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £27–35 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-polruan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Polruan) - Bristol → Polruan 190 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-polruan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Polruan) - London → Polruan 342 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · £36–48 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-polruan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Polruan) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Polruan) 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 Polruan 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 Polruan. 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 95 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 239 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 469 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 585 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 618 km If you know how people move in Polruan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpolruan&title=Polruan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpolruan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Polruan - [Lanteglos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lanteglos) civil parish and hamlet in south Cornwall, England 2.7 km - [Bodinnick](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bodinnick) village in Cornwall, United Kingdom 1.4 km - [Polkerris](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polkerris) village in Cornwall, England, UK 3.5 km - [Pont](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pont) village in Cornwall, England, UK 2.2 km - [Mixtow](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mixtow) hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK 1.9 km [The place page for Polruan](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/polruan) [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/polruan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 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