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Portreath

Portreath is a civil parish, village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Portreath
Portreath · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Portreath is a civil parish, village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about three miles (5 km) west-north-west of Redruth. The village extends along both sides of a stream valley and is centred on the harbour and beach. West of the harbour entrance and breakwater are two sandy beaches that are popular with holidaymakers, surfers and naturists.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Portreath

One place 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. 01
    Tehidy

    Tehidy Country Park is a country park in Illogan in Cornwall, England which incorporates 250 acres of the parkland and estate around Tehidy House, a former manor house of the Tehidy manor. The park's facilities include an events field, barbecue hire facilities in a specially designated woodland, outdoor education facilities, a permanent orienteering course and a schools and youth campsite.

    2.4 km · country park in Illogan in Cornwall, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Portreath

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 186 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 211 km · Bristol (BRS), 219 km
  • Cardiff → Portreath
    201 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · £30–40
  • Bristol → Portreath
    231 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · £25–34
  • London → Portreath
    388 km · quickest by road, 6h 47m · £39–50
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Portreath

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 Portreath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    111 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    286 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    441 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    591 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    623 km

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Around it

Next door to Portreath

  • Illoganvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK1.9 km
  • Bridgevillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • South Tehidyvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3 km
  • North Countryvillage in Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK3.9 km
  • West Tolgusvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.3 km
  • Tolgus Mountvillage in Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK3.6 km