The village store, post office and tea/coffee shop is 50 metres from the cottage and sells everything from your daily newspaper to fresh vegetables and ready meals, bread, cakes and local art and crafts.
Penweir Cottage is ideally positioned to reach many of the beautiful beaches on the North and South Coast. It is about 8 miles from the renowned surfing beach of Polzeath, the sailing and waterski centres at Rock and the delightful fishing village of Port Isaac. Within 15 minutes you can be in Padstow with 7 beaches in close proximity. They are Trevone Bay, Harlyn Bay, Mother Ivy’s Bay, Boobies Bay, Constantine Bay, Treyarnon Bay and Porthcothan Bay, all of which offer a different coastal experience. Padstow also offers a great selection of shops and of course it is the foodie capital of Cornwall with all the Rick Stein restaurants, the Great British menu winner Paul Ainsworth and the great value, vibrant pizza and pasta restaurant Rojanos.
Rough Tor on Bodmin Moor
On the outskirts of the village is Pencarrow House. Open to the public and particularly dog friendly, Pencarrow has been the much-loved home of the Molesworth-St Aubyns for 500 years. It’s a real family home, with magnificent gardens, tea shop and fruit sales in season. You can even let your dogs off a lead.
St Mabyn is minutes away from the Camel Trail where you can walk or cycle a flat route via Wadebridge, all the way to Padstow, or you can take the quieter route towards Bodmin and the surrounding moors. Don’t forget to stop off at the award winning Camel Valley vineyard for a glass of bubbly overlooking the most incredible Cornish countryside.
We are a 10 minute drive from the A30 which gives ample scope for touring the South coast and it’s a 25 minute drive to the beautiful estuary town of Fowey and other popular south coast resorts. Before you reach the South coast, you pass the must see Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project, which is un-missable at any time of the year.
There are several golf courses within a 10 mile radius, including the renowned links course, St.Enodoc, ranked 55th in the world and certainly one of the finest golf courses in the South West. Along with the demanding course, it has unrivalled estuary and sea views. Within 2 miles of the cottage is St.Kew golf course, the Point at Polzeath is a short drive towards the North coast and there is Trevose Golf and Country Club near Padstow.
Best of all…add if you can drag yourself away from the very popular St Mabn Inn….. there is a great selection of fabulous food pubs within 3 miles of St Mabyn; St Kew Inn, St Tudy Inn, The Maltsters in the charming village of Chapel Amble and Blisland Inn in the remote moorland village of the same name. We are just 4 miles from Wadebridge, a typically Cornish, gorgeous old market town, where you can buy anything you could want for your perfect holiday.
We are a 10 minute drive from the A30 which gives ample scope for touring the South coast and it’s a 25 minute drive to the beautiful estuary town of Fowey and other popular south coast resorts. Before you reach the South coast, you pass the must see Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project, which is un-missable at any time of the year.
There are several golf courses within a 10 mile radius, including the renowned links course, St.Enodoc, ranked 55th in the world and certainly one of the finest golf courses in the South West. Along with the demanding course, it has unrivalled estuary and sea views. Within 2 miles of the cottage is St.Kew golf course, the Point at Polzeath is a short drive towards the North coast and there is Trevose Golf and Country Club near Padstow.
Best of all…add if you can drag yourself away from the very popular St Mabn Inn….. there is a great selection of fabulous food pubs within 3 miles of St Mabyn; St Kew Inn, St Tudy Inn, The Maltsters in the charming village of Chapel Amble and Blisland Inn in the remote moorland village of the same name. We are just 4 miles from Wadebridge, a typically Cornish, gorgeous old market town, where you can buy anything you could want for your perfect holiday.
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