Village in Cornwall, England

Polzeath

Polzeath is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Every way there

Cardiff → Polzeath
158 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · £26–35
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Bristol → Polzeath
190 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · £22–29
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London → Polzeath
351 km · quickest by road, 6h 24m · £36–47
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Polzeath, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Polzeath has

YScheduled flightsCardiff (CWL), 143 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesPuffin Island Pleasure Boat Trip, 3 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Plymouth, 59 km.

50.574°, -4.915°

It is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north west of Wadebridge on the Atlantic coast.

How locals move

Getting around Polzeath the local way

Go nextTake the Black Tor ferry over the water to Padstow.

From Wikivoyage: Rock, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.