Portscatho luxury self catering holiday accommodation on Cornwall's stunning south coast
Hillside House - a Georgian captain’s house
- is a well-appointed luxury self-catering holiday home in the heart of picturesque seaside village Portscatho on Cornwall's stunningly
beautiful Roseland Peninsula. It has been recently refurbished to offer six comfortable
and stylish bedrooms - all with ensuite bath/shower rooms. We have achieved a four star rating in 2008 with Quality in Tourism and in four red diamonds 2006 and 2007 by the AA.
Set close to the harbour, and conveniently opposite Portscatho's characterful
16th century inn, our luxury self catering holiday accommodation is full of the charming atmosphere
of nautical Portscatho and is perfect for a peaceful and relaxed holiday.
It is an ideal base from which to discover the Roseland's delightful countryside
and cliff-top walks, secluded coves and sandy beaches, or take to the
road and escape to a deserted beach or nearby buzzing riviera St Mawes.
Hillside House is also ideally located for Cornwall's picturesque fishing
villages, the Eden Project, the beautiful St Just in Roseland Church,
The Lost Gardens of Heligan and Cornwall's National Trust gardens and
houses, The National Maritime Museum at Falmouth, Cornish art galleries
and craft centres.
Hillside House encourages all to be as green as possible by recycling all possible
waste, the provision of SLS-free organic liquid soap, locally-sourced
produce, ecover cleaning products and we continue to strive to keep abreast
of sustainable tourism.
Where we are
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Train
The nearest railway station, Truro, is about 16 miles from Hillside House
(rail enqs: 08457 484950)
Coach
National Express coaches serve Truro (enqs: 08705 808080)
Bus
Buses 50/51 from Truro to St Mawes stop en route at Portscatho.
Car
Follow the A30 to Cornwall. Take the A391 to St Austell, then turn right
onto the A390 to just past the sign for Hewswater. Turn left onto the
B3287 signposted Tregony. At the end of the road, turn right and then
shortly afterwards left onto the A3078 - through Tregony until you reach
the end where you turn left towards St Mawes. Follow that road for 6.1
miles and turn left at sign for Portscatho, continue for 1.3 miles and
turn left again - at the very end turn sharp left into Portscatho's main
square. Hillside House is the white house next to the butchers and (conveniently)
opposite the Plume of Feathers 17th century inn.
Taxi
Gerrans Bay Taxis, Robert Peters of Portscatho, 01872 580673
What to do around Portscatho + Cornwall's Roseland Peninsula
So much to do and so little time ... To whet your appetite ...
- discover the Roseland's delightful countryside and cliff-top walks,
secluded creeks and wooded valleys
- the most beautiful walk from Portscatho to Place manor via St Anthony's head lighthouse - passing the Roseland Church at St Anthony where Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea were possibly shipwrecked and landed - see article - catching the passenger ferry to St Mawes, relax over a cream tea and then catch the bus back to Portscatho
- hire a rowing boat, motorboat, kayaks or windsurfing board at nearby
riverside Percuil and cruise up creeks and rivers - ask and we can arrange
www.paddleandsail.com
or hire a boat hourly, daily or weekly at local www.mylorboathire.co.uk
- stunning wooden sailing day boats for hire: sail around the beautiful
Falmouth harbour exploring local waterside pubs and creeks with www.falwoodenboathire.com
- £75special 2-hour starter package with instructor around the
creeks - boats available from St Just in Roseland
- walk along the South West Coast Path to Pendower beach, turn and follow
the river to Melinsey Mill where you can congratulate yourself with
a generous Cornish cream tea (among other things) at this most beautiful
natural setting - woodland, lakeside tables and cheeky little birds
on your tabletop waiting for crumbs. Definitely the writer's favourite
spot and favourite cream tea. Pure poetry.
- learn a new watersport at Percuil's 'Paddle and Sail' - ask and we
can arrange
- try your hand at fishing in Cornwall
- check out local sandy beaches: Porthcurnick, Towan (home to seals),
Pendower, Carne, Porthbean and Porthbeor.
- visit the nearby harbour village of St Mawes with it's walled seafront,
castle and magnificent sub-tropical plants, which becomes a lively little
yachting haven in the summer months and has a good choice of shops,
pubs, restaurants and indulge in the obligatory cream tea.
- Walk from St Mawes two miles along the coastal walk to St Just in
Roseland where you will find 'the most beautiful churchyard on earth'
(Sir John Betjeman)
- take the passenger ferry from St Mawes to colourful bustling maritime
Falmouth and take in its cobbled streets, antique shops, new National
Maritime Museum, pubs and restaurants, beaches, and wonderful views
across the Carrick Roads (Fal estuary).
- Lunch on fish and chips on one of Falmouth's Quays, looking out to
sea, enjoying the sun and wondering at the huge ships in for repairs
or visiting Tall Ships at Falmouth Docks.
- Take one of the many pleasure cruises from Falmouth or St Mawes. The
Fal Estuary and Helford River - both areas of outstanding beauty and
wildlife - can only be fully appreciated by boat.
- The King Harry Ferry (5 miles away) is an enjoyable shortcut by car
ferry to Falmouth, passing alongside the National Trust's Trelissick
Gardens.
- Visit the picturesque neighbouring villages of Veryan and Portloe!
- Cornwall's capital city, Truro, with its cathedral, shops and cobbled
streets - a 25 minute drive. Truro Cathedral has regular organ recitals
and if you time it correctly you can enjoy an organ rehearsal.
- Cornwall's much celebrated Eden Project and The Lost Gardens of Heligan
are 35 minutes away.
- Spend the day at St Ives with The Tate of the West and other St Ives
art galleries
- The village of St Agnes still retains its mining character with its
cottages and engine houses.
- Cream tea or lunch at Smugglers Cottage - an embarkation point for
US D-Day landings.
- Portscatho's Regatta is a lively event that visitors return for year
after year - with music and dancing in the streets. Many have been participating
for generations.
- Local art galleries
- Sub-tropical gardens of Cornwall: The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Trebah
and Trelissick to name a few.
- Magnificent Music Machines - "a delightfully eccentric museum
created on the back of one man's passion for music boxes, Wurlitzers
and organs of yesteryear. Paul personally guides you around his collection,
treating you to performances and dipping into his encyclopaedic knowledge."
(Holiday Which) - by the old mill steam in the lovely Looe Valley -
just off the B3254 at St Keyne Sation near Liskeard. 01579 343108
- The
Portscatho Harbour Club with stylishly refurbished bar
and enviable balcony overlooking the sea- £5 annual membership
– pool table, snooker, darts, table football, air hockey, sea
views, and a downstairs gym. Open all day Sunday. Children are allowed
in the games room til 8.30pm. Free events to members include cinema
nights, dancing classes, sketching and writing sessions and Bingo. Gym downstairs (£4 per session or monthly rates).
Or perhaps just sit back, relax and watch the world go by.
Gardens in Cornwall (National Trust and private)
The Roseland Peninsula is a horticultural paradise and is one of the
most beautiful locations in Cornwall. The southern coast is warmed by
the Gulf Stream. The Cornwall Garden Festival and Flower Show is held
each spring and abundant forests of camellias, rhododendrons, magnolias
and azaleas in the nearby gardens make Spring in Cornwall a spectacular
time for all garden lovers:
The Church of St Just in Roseland one of the Daily Telegraph's 100 Favourite
Churches, (a ten minute drive away) dates from AD 550 and nestles by the
Percuil River amongst camellias, rhododendrons and sub-tropical plants.
Trebah Garden, Mawnan Smith, Falmouth
Trelissick Garden, Feock, Truro, TR3 6QL
Trengwainton Garden, Penzance
Tresco Abbey Gardens, Isle of Scilly
Trewithen Gardens, Truro
Lost Gardens of Heligan, Pentewan, St Austell
Caerhays Castle Gardens, Caerhays, St Austell
Glendurgan Garden, Mawnan Smith, Falmouth
Penjerrick Garden, Budock, Falmouth
Probus Gardens, Probus, Truro
And of course the Cornwall's highly acclaimed Eden Project.
Distances from our Portscatho B&B
in order of proximity ...
- St Mawes 5 miles - 10 mins
- Veryan 6 miles - 15 mins
- Tregony 8 miles - 18 mins
- Gorran Haven 10 miles - 25 mins
- Mevagissey 15 miles - 30 mins
- Lost Gardens of Heligan - 15 miles - 30 mins
- Truro 16 miles - 25mins
- St Austell - 17 miles - 30 mins
- St Agnes 18 miles - 40 mins
- Helford 21 miles - 45 mins
- Helston 21 miles - 45 mins
- Fowey - 27 miles - 40 mins
- Newquay 28 miles - 44 mins
- St Ives - 33 miles - 60 mins
- Penzance - 35 miles - 60 mins
- Mousehole 40 miles - 1hr 8 mins
- Land's End - 47 miles - 1 hr 15 mins
- Tintagel Castle - 54 miles
Links
Travel
Air
Air SouthWest
British Airways
Newquay Airport
Ryan Air
Train
Railtrack
Trainline Car hire
Beech Motors: Car Hire St Austell 01726 74743
Old Post Office Albert Rd, St. Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4TZ
Email: philhalliday@beechmotors.demon.co.uk
Enterprise,Truro +44(0)1872 262211.
Avis
Carjet
Car Rentals
Europcar
Coach
Gobycoach
Travel reports /route planning/weather
AA
RAC
BBC
Other Links
The Kings Head
at Ruan Lanihorne - one of my favourite places to eat locally
- booking essential
Paddle
and Sail
01872 580964
Sailing school which also has motorboats, sailing boats, kayaks and wind
surfers for hire
Mylor boat hire
- discover the unique sheltered waters around Falmouth
01326 377745
National
Trust events
Tel: 01208 74281
The Gaia Energy Centre
– promoting renewable and sustainable energy and energy
conservation.
The Daphne du Maurier website
Dame Daphne du Maurier, 1907-1989, DBE 1969, Fellow of the Royal Society
of Literature, Lady Browning, Bibliography, Festival of Arts and Literature.
Cornwall
Tourist Board - Cornwall Tourist Board, the official agency
providing holiday information about Cornwall, including accommodation,
places to visit, how to get here, events/whats on, short breaks, vacancies
and lots of different holiday brochures.
English
Heritage - info re historic attractions
South
West Tourism
Seen Cornwall
- your gateway to the arts in Cornwall. The Seen Cornwall website has
been developed to illustrate the depth, variety and richness of the arts
in Cornwall.
South
West Coastal Path Association
Chycor
- Rich source of info on Cornwall
Destination
Cornwall - comprehensive of everything happening in Cornwall
Cornwall
Online - info on events, attractions and local products with
the accent on Falmouth and South West Cornwall.
A
guide to Cornish and Devonian Art Galleries
West
Briton newspaper
www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
- West Briton newspaper
www.somewheretogo.co.uk/cornwall
- Cornwall Hotels and Tourist Attractions
www.falmouthtown.co.uk
- online directory of everything Falmouth
Blue Reef Aquarium
Cornish Cyder
Farm
Cornish Goldsmiths
Cornwall Guide
Cornwall Taste
of the West
Eden Project
Falmouth Port
- visiting ships
Flambards
Helston Folk Museum
Geevor Tin Mine
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
Hall for Cornwall for
plays, concerts
Jamaica Inn
Just Cornish
Lappa Valley Steam Railway
Looe
Looe Discovery
Centre
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Minack Theatre
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
National Seal Sanctuary
Newquay Zoo
Padstow
'Obby 'Oss
Padstow Museum
Paradise Park
Pencarrow House
& Gardens
Penlee House Gallery and Museum
Poldark Mine
Shipwreck Rescue & Heritage Centre
St Just-in-Roseland - St Mawes 15th century church
St Michael's Mount
Sterts Arts & Environmental
Centre
Tate Gallery, St Ives
The Bash Street Company
The Lost Gardens of
Heligan
The National Trust
The Pilchard Works
Heritage Museum
The Royal
Cornwall Museum
The Yarg Cheese Farm
Trebah Gardens
Water World
Wheal Martyn Museum
Other B&Bs travel and holiday links
www.gites-du-moulin.com
- Alastair Sawday recommended self catering holiday cottages/gites in
an idyllic Normandy mill setting in the Calvados region of Normandy for
rambling, fishing, back-to-nature, walking family holidays.
www.montengrand.com
- luxury self-catering holiday cottages set in a beautiful, rolling landscape
in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where the departments of the Ariege
and the Aude meet.
www.purpleski.com
- highly recommendable Meribel ski-ing holidays - a set-up run by the
friendliest and most accommodating people who bend over backwards to make
your ski-ing experience one of the best.
www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk
- B&B and holiday accommodation in the UK.
Go
Coastal - online directory of UK coastal holiday accommodation
www.bnb-directory.com
- The Bed & Breakfast Directory offers information and contact details
for hundreds of B&B's across the UK and further afield.
www.tripadvisor.com
- for unbiased opinions about holiday
accommodation, restaurants
and bars worldwide at TripAdvisor.
www.bargain-holiday-agents.co.uk
- Book last minute holidays online, search through thousands of late booking
holidays to destinations throughout the world and make great savings
Roseland Peninsula campsite at Treloan near Portscatho - a relaxed natural and friendly campsite, recommended by the Guardian, with outstanding sea views up the hill in Gerrans
www.holprop.com
- For sale homes, houses, villas, condos,
www.caravanshq.com
- everything caravans
www.cornish-links.co.uk
- Cornish business directory
www.cornwall-pages.co.uk
- Cornwall search engine
www.thetravelplanner.co.uk
- for UK travel information
www.altraverse.com
worldwide accommodation directory
www.holiday-travel-flights.co.uk
Late Holiday Travel Deals If you are looking for a deal on a late
holiday or last minute short break flight check out the prices on this
directory for some very special offers
www.hotbunk.co.uk
- hotel and bed and breakfast guide for Cornwall and the UK
ClickBedAndBreakfast.co.uk
- online guide to Great British B&Bs.
www.creamofcornwall.co.uk
- top-quality holiday accommodation showcasing the Cream of Cornwall
Other links
cornwallplumbingandheating our local recommended plumber who operates between Truro and Newquay and Falmouth but will happily service any Cornwall wide plumbing and heating requirements.
Vintage caravan belonging to Portscatho local and kept at Treloan Coastal Holidays campsite
www.thebluecarrot.co.uk - an exciting new chemical-free market garden on Cornwall's Roseland
Peninsula - beautiful fresh and unusual vegetables grown without chemicals but
with plenty of love - located in Gerrans near Portscatho - picked freshly while you wait.
Caphevn Vietnamese teas and
coffee - experience coffee as the Vietnamese do - taste their
ethically sourced teas and coffees at various London markets. UK supplier
of Vietnamese weasel coffee which has journeyed though the native palm
civet.
www.west-sussex-livery.co.uk
- BHS approved livery yard, riding club and stables based
in Dial Post, Nr Horsham, West Sussex - friends of Hillside House Portscatho
www.macclesfield-hog-roast.co.uk
- professional hog roasting company in and around Cheshire
www.djpipes.co.uk - professional plumber
and tiler for your kitchens and bathrooms in the Brighton and Hove area
of Sussex
St Ives restaurant/bar with private function room in St Ives West Cornwall
delicatessen-cafe serving high quality home-made food - with private function room in St Marychurch Torquay Devon
Cornwall seaside self catering luxury holiday rental in heart of unspoilt harbour village Portscatho
on Cornwall’s stunning Roseland peninsula. Yards from the harbour,
beach and sixteenth century inn. Stylishly refurbished, all rooms are
ensuite with luxury beds, phones and dvds etc. Awarded Quality in Tourism 4 stars, an excellent base for visiting Eden Project and Lost Gardens
of Heligan, St Mawes and all Cornwall.
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