Portloe ( kw, Porthlogh) is a small village in

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, England, on the

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, in the

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Veryan Veryan (Cornish language, Cornish: ''Elerghi'') is a coastal civil parishes in England, civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village has been described as one of Cornwall's loveliest inland ...

. Portloe harbours two full-time working fishing vessels, the ''Jasmine'' and ''Katy Lil'', which fish for crab and lobster in Veryan and Gerrans Bay, and a fleet of smaller leisure boats in summer. Visitors are attracted to Portloe by its fishing, scenery, and walks. Portloe lies within the

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(AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park. The

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passes through the village. The name ''Portloe'' comes from the

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words ''porth'', meaning 'cove' or 'harbour', and ''logh'', meaning 'lake' or 'inlet'.

History

The

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(RNLI) stationed a

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at Portloe in 1870 but it was withdrawn in 1887 without ever having performed a rescue. It was kept at first in a boat house built at the end of the road above the beach. It proved difficult to move the boat across the beach so a new house was built in 1877 nearer the water. The first house was converted into a church; the second was a school for a while but has since become a private dwelling house. Portloe, "the jewel of the Roseland Peninsula", was rated as among the "20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland" by

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in 2020.

Film locations

Used as a location for the 1964 film ''

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'', The Lugger Hotel can clearly be seen at the film's end. It was also the location for the BBC comedy series ''Wild West'', which starred

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and

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and the location where ''

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'' was filmed, starring Eddie Griffin. Just to the south of the village is ''

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'', a cliff-top villa overlooking the sea which was the main location for

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's 1992 serialisation of Mary Wesley's ''

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''. It is owned by the

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. In 2012, '' About Time'', the latest

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production, was partly filmed there.

References

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