Truro - shopper’s paradise


Truro – Cornwall’s cultural, commercial and administrative centre – is a shopper’s paradise.


The city, graced by a towering cathedral, has seen redevelopment in recent years and today offers residents and visitors a splendid shopping experience.


There are elegant cobbled streets, some featuring small streams, and narrow alleyways, with much of the centre benefiting from being pedestrianised.


In the late 18th century, Truro was celebrated for its architecture, and today Lemon Street is considered to be one of the finest examples of a surviving Georgian street.


As well as the shops, there are cafes, restaurants and pubs to help you while away a relaxing day in pleasant surroundings.


The Gothic spires of the late- Victorian cathedral, and its walls with their intricate carvings, soar above the rest of the city centre.


You can take a guided tour around the awe-inspiring building which stands on the site of the 16th century church of St Mary.


During a visit to the city centre, the lively square in front of the cathedral is a place to pause for a while and soak up the atmosphere.


Nearby is the Royal Cornwall Lemon Quay Truro Cathedral


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Port Isaac - discover the perfect fishing village


And above the seagulls bleat with glee!


The secret is out, this once little known historic fishing village has now entered the living rooms of homes from Scotland to Australia in the idyllic creation of the perfect fishing village that is Port Wenn inhabited by the Grumpy Doc Martin and his somewhat mundane tales!


However is that all that this village has to offer, the answer is not by a long shot.


Port Isaac is a real living working village with families, business, history and tales of its own which leave Doc Martin in the shade.


Before the village became the tourist


stop, TV and film location it is today it catered very much for the community with many shops including two butchers a bakers, a green grocery a cobblers and even a cinema.


There were many more boats in the harbour and fisherman to take them out.


The primary school was well attended and in the heart of the community now the location of the Old School Hotel built precariously on the cliff edge it was designed by Cornish architect Silvanus Trevail who won a prize for it in a Chicago exhibition. It remained the village school until 1976.


The Golden Lion also well attended was the locals bar built in 1715 at


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that time one of the largest buildings in the village and was possibly erected on an old quay. It was used by the men of the village for drinking, singing and unwinding.


The small passageway next to the pub know as the ‘Ope’ which leads to the ‘Bloody Bones Yard’ (a body was once found in a wheelbarrow here but the murderer was never detected).


It is said pirates used to use the tunnel for smuggling from. A salvaged WW2 navel gun now stands guard here.


Another interesting passage is Temple Bar nick named Squeeze-ee-belly Alley as its only 18 inches across at its narrowest point and was in the Book of Records as the world’s narrowest thoroughfare.


Market squares in Cornish towns are often called the ‘Platt’ and it is here that much of the village gathered for social occasions.


Hendra Park,Truro


Museum where permanent displays about Cornish history can be seen alongside collections of ceramics and glass from around the world.


John Wesley on his final visit to the village in 1789 preached here to almost all the inhabitants.


Although the village is now known as a crab and lobster fishing village it was the humble pilchard that brought the Port true prosperity.


Boat building also thrived in the village during the 1800 with at least two boat yards in the village.


In the 1900s, as the fish shoals declined, Port Isaac’s fortune and way of life began to change.


Its isolation became the attraction to an ‘upwardly mobile society’ and so it evolved into a holiday village.


Today 70% of the old centre has been bought up as second homes.


Despite this change Port Isaac is still a working harbour and fishermen ply their trade, harvesting the seas in all weathers, as their predecessors before them.


The village trail can be obtained from Tintagel Visitors Centre as well as other local walks and information.


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