Portloe

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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The RNLI stationed a lifeboat at Portloe in 1870 but it was withdrawn in 1887 without ever having performed a rescue.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

  1. Leach, Nicholas (2006) [2000]. Cornwall's Lifeboat Heritage. Chacewater: Twelveheads Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 0-906294-43-6.