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Cornwall and Devon

So much to see and to do for all the family in Cornwall

We are located on the beautiful North Cornish Coast. Penstowe has every facility for a perfect holiday. It's friendly and fun, with heated pools, childrens pool, three bars, sports centre, restaurant and games room. Penstowe makes an ideal touring centre for both Devon and Cornwall - wherever you go, you will discover just why this is the most popular holiday area in England.

Bude offers excellent shopping, restaurants and pubs, plus it also has its own leisure pool and sports activities, coarse and sea fishing is available. For the more adventurous supervised watersports include windsurfing and surfing. For the music lover Bude has its own Jazz Festival during August - September.

The whole area is a holiday playground with beautiful beaches, bustling coastal resorts, fishing villages and many beauty spots.

A wealth of old market towns, picturesque villages, olde worlde inns, ancient churches, charming little coves, beautiful beaches, craft centres and wildlife parks await in the surrounding unspoilt countryside. Mystical Tintagel, the legendary home of King Arthur, is easily accessible as is Clovelly. Boscastle, now made famous for it's flooding on 16th August 2004 and subsequent television series, is not far away. Newquay and Ilfracombe are both within an hour's drive.

For the children there is the Milky Way Adventure Park approximately 20 miles away and the Big Sheep.

Bude History

The Bude Canal stretches some 35 miles from Bude to Launceston via Holsworthy, and is a magnificent feat of engineering. The canal was used to carry rich sea sand which was used by the farmers as fertiliser for the poor soil inland. A series of aqueducts, embankments and wheel pits for the inclined planes carried tub-boats to a height of 430 feet above sea level within just six miles, all of these manually constructed using picks and shovels. The canal closed in 1891 with the advent of the railways. Follow the history of the canal at Bude Museum. Nowadays, the first two miles of the canal remain in water and are used by residents and visitors to the area, for fishing, walking and boating.