Portwrinkle

Worth seeing in and around Portwrinkle

4 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. 01
   Scraesdon Fort

   Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, the naval dockyard of Devonport from enemy naval attack. They were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases in the south of England.

   3.7 km · fort in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Tregantle Fort

   Tregantle Fort in south east Cornwall is one of several forts surrounding Plymouth that were built as a result of a decision in Lord Palmerston's premiership to deter the French from attacking naval bases on the Channel coast.

   3 km · fort in Antony, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St German's Priory

   St Germans Priory is a former Augustinian priory church in the village of St Germans, Cornwall, England. Originating as the seat of the Saxon bishops of Cornwall, the present building is largely Norman, with significant extensions in the 14th and 15th centuries and later restoration in the Victorian period.

   3.9 km · church building in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Port Eliot

   Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which serves as the parish church of St Germans.

   3.9 km · Grade I listed country house in St Germans, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Portwrinkle

Airports

Cardiff (CWL), 134 km · Bristol (BRS), 159 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 213 km

Stations

St Germans railway station, 3.6 km

• Cardiff → Portwrinkle

  147 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · £24–32
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• Bristol → Portwrinkle

  171 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £20–26
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• London → Portwrinkle

  320 km · quickest by road, 5h 59m · £33–45
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No local-transport research exists yet for Portwrinkle

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

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