Tregella Place Camping

Padstow harbour is two miles from the campsite. You can drive there in a few minutes or walk there in about half an hour. There’s a little museum in town plus opportunities for boat trips including the ferry over to Rock on the other side of the Camel Estuary. Padstow sits on the South West Coast Path and at the end of the Camel Trail so walking and bike rides are easy from here too. There’s bike hire available in town, if you haven’t got your own, and The Camel Trail provides a largely traffic-free 18-mile route to Bodmin Moor. From the campsite, it's under three miles to the closest beach, Trevone Bay, where there’s a mixture of sand and rock pools. It’s a similar distance to Treyarnon Bay where there’s a natural tidal pool you can swim in at low tide. For a day off the beach, Camel Creek Adventure Park is just four miles from the campsite. Newquay is half an hour’s drive along the coast in one direction, Port Isaac half an hour in the other (both 14 miles).

There’s a bar and a food van on site at Tregella Place Camping serving on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays so if you don’t feel like cooking, you don’t have to go anywhere at all. Breakfast muffins are available in the mornings and homemade burgers are on offer in the evening. There are occasional guest caterers too. Off site, the closest place for a meal out is The Cornish Arms, a mile down the road. It’s the closest of eight Rick Stein-owned eateries in the Padstow area – and a good one; a Cornish inn serving woodfired pizzas as well as a menu of good pub food with a focus on seasonal local produce. In town (two miles), you can choose from The Seafood Restaurant for fine dining and Rick Stein’s fish and chip shop by the quay (among others). The Old Custom House is a non Rick Stein option on the quayside that’s good for food and there are plenty of others to choose from in the town. Trevisker’s Kitchen, a mile from site, is a cafe at a nearby garden centre that does good food. It’s Sunday carvery comes recommended by your hosts as does Padstow Farm Shop (two miles) if you want to stock up on food to cook yourselves or for picnics. The shop has its own butchery and a deli counter offering great sausage rolls, pasties and salads. There are independent shops in Padstow and there’s a big Tesco on the outskirts of town, just a mile from Tregella Place.