Portloe on the Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall, England, UK a small fishing village straggling down a narrow inlet in the cliffs to the quay.
Portloe, on the Roseland peninsula, is considered to be one of the prettiest villages in Cornwall. It’s steep sided valleys have meant little development over the years and many buildings differ little from when they were built. Sir John Betjeman said of Portloe "One of the least spoiled and most impressive of Cornish fishing villages". It’s name came from the Cornish Porth Logh meaning “cove pool”. It's naturally sheltered position meant that the village grew in the seventeenth and eightheenth centuries as a busy pilchard fishing port. At the beginning of the twentieth century there were more than fifty boats fishing here - now only three boats work from the cove mainly for crab and lobster. Smuggling, as elsewhere in Cornwall, has played a part in Portloe’s history. French brandy was the main contraband, brought ashore by fishermen and hidden in cellars and local farms. In fact in 1824 the problem was thought so bad that the Customs ordered the erection of a watch, boathouse and slip in a vain attempt to deter the illict trade.
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Location: Portloe, Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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