St Endellion: Port Gaverne harbour
Introduction
The photograph on this page of St Endellion: Port Gaverne harbour by Martin Bodman as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
St Endellion: Port Gaverne harbour
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 17 Jun 2008
John Warden Page, writing 111 years ago, described Port Gaverne as ‘ a pleasant little inlet with a sandy beach at the head, about which stand a few whitewashed cottages and me teste a very snug little inn .. When I was last there, a coaster lay at anchor waiting for her cargo of slate from the great quarries at Delabole ..’ But the railway took the trade and Port Gaverne suffered [Source: John Lloyd Warden Page. The North Coast of Cornwall, Truro, 1897, 103]
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
50.593479
Longitude
-4.823443