Porthilly ( kw, Porthhyli) is a small coastal settlement on the east side of the

River Camel The River Camel ( kw, Dowr Kammel, meaning ''crooked river'') is a river in Cornwall, England. It rises on the edge of Bodmin Moor and with its tributaries its catchment area covers much of North Cornwall. The river flows into the eastern Cel ...

estuary in

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, England, United Kingdom. It is situated immediately south of the larger village of

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approximately four miles (6.5 km) northwest of

Wadebridge Wadebridge (; kw, Ponswad) is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town straddles the River Camel upstream from Padstow.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' The permanent populat ...

.Ordnance Survey: Explorer map (scale 1:25000); Sheet 106 ''Newquay & Padstow'' Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' The settlement is in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

St Minver Lowlands St Minver ( kw, Sen Menvra) is the name of an ecclesiastical parish, a civil parish and a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The civil parish of St Minver is in Bodmin Registration District and is nominally divided into St Minv ...

. Cornwall Council online mapping. Retrieved June 2010 It is on the south side of Porthilly Cove, an estuarine bay with a level

intertidal The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of Marine habitat, habitats with var ...

beach A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shel ...

. St Michael's church, an ancient chapelry of St Minver parish, stands on the seawall above the cove. First mentioned in a deed dated 1299, the building has

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features and was substantially restored in 1867. It has a chancel and nave, a south transept and a bell turret containing one bell. In the churchyard to the south of the church is a medieval four holed cross. It is listed Grade II. Porthilly cross

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Villages in Cornwall Populated coastal places in Cornwall {{Cornwall-geo-stub