Portloe
| Portloe | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Portloe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW938395 |
| Location: | 50°13’9"N, 4°53’30"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Truro |
| Postcode: | TR2 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Portloe is a small village in Cornwall, on the Roseland Peninsula, a mile and a half east of Veryan and within its civil parish.
Working from Portloe harbour are two full-time fishing vessels, the Jasmine and Katy Lil, which fish for crab and lobster in Veryan and Gerrans Bay, and a fleet of smaller leisure boats are found here in summer. The harbour is run by a committee.
Visitors are attracted to Portloe by its fishing, scenery, and walks.
Portloe is within the 'Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty', as is almost a third of the county. The South West Coast Path passes through the village.
History
The RNLI stationed a lifeboat at Portloe in 1870 but it was withdrawn in 1887 without ever having performed a rescue. It was kept at first in a boat house built at the end of the road above the beach. It proved difficult to move the boat across the beach so a new house was built in 1877 nearer the water. The first house was converted into a church; the second was a school for a while but has since become a private dwelling house.[1]
Film locations
The village is a pretty place in a pretty location and has appeared in a number of films:
- Crooks in Cloisters, 1963: a filming location. The Lugger Hotel clearly seen at the end of the film.
- Wild West (BBC comedy series with Dawn French and Catherine Tate)
- Irish Jam
Just to the south of the village is Broom Parc, a cliff-top villa overlooking the sea which is owned by the National Trust. The house has been a filming location:
- The Camomile Lawn (1992 serialisation of Mary Wesley's novel), as the main location
- About Time (2013), part filmed there.
References
- ↑ Leach, Nicholas (2006) [2000]. Cornwall's Lifeboat Heritage. Chacewater: Twelveheads Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 0-906294-43-6.