Porthtowan
Porthtowan is a small village in Cornwall, England, UK, which is a popular summer tourist destination.

Porthtowan is a small village in Cornwall, England, UK, which is a popular summer tourist destination. Porthtowan is on Cornwall's north Atlantic coast about 3.5 km (2.2 mi) southwest of St Agnes, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Redruth, 16 km (9.9 mi) west of Truro and 24 km (15 mi) southwest of Newquay in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site.
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Getting to Porthtowan
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 182 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 212 km · Bristol (BRS), 215 km
- Cardiff → Porthtowan196 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · £29–39
- Bristol → Porthtowan227 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · £25–33
- London → Porthtowan383 km · quickest by road, 6h 40m · £39–50
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No local-transport research exists yet for Porthtowan
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 Porthtowan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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