Padstow
Padstow is small historic fishing village on the north coast of North Cornwall, famous for being the residence of TV celebrity chef Rick Stein. The town has expanded greatly, become very up market and expensive, and lost its old-fashioned fishing village character, due the crowds who come because of the fame it has gained by featuring on television.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Bob Linsdell, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,300 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Padstow Urban” and “Padstow, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prideaux Place and Brea Hill.
Prideaux Place
Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years.
Brea Hill
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Chris J Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brea Hill, pronounced "Bray Hill" is a round hill beside the River Camel estuary in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom The hill is 62 metres high and there are Bronze Age tumuli at the summit.
Daymer Bay
Beach
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Daymer Bay is a bay and a beach on the east side of the River Camel estuary in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately six miles north of Wadebridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rock and St Merryn.
Rock
Photo: Andrew Bone, CC BY 2.0.
Rock is a village in North Cornwall, on the Camel Estuary. Rock is a popular base for holidaymakers. It is sometimes referred to as "Britain's St Tropez" and the "Kensington of Cornwall" due to its popularity with affluent holidaymakers.
St Merryn
Village
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Merryn is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about 3.5 miles south of the fishing port of Padstow and 11 miles northeast of the coastal resort of Newquay. St Merryn is situated 2½ miles west of Padstow.
Polzeath
Village
Photo: Andy F, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polzeath is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately 6 miles north west of Wadebridge on the Atlantic coast. Polzeath is situated 2½ miles northeast of Padstow.
Padstow
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: North Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.5404° or 50° 32′ 25″ northLongitude
-4.937° or 4° 56′ 13″ westPopulation
2,300Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PADOpen location code
9C2QG3R7+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 29289583OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Padstow” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Padstow”
- Basque: “Padstow”
- Bengali: “পেডস্টো”
- Breton: “Lannwedhenek”
- Burmese: “ပက်ဒ်စတိုးမြို့”
- Catalan: “Padstow”
- Cebuano: “Padstow (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Padstow”
- Chinese: “Padstow”
- Chinese: “帕德斯托”
- Chinese: “帕斯道”
- Cornish: “Lannwedhenek”
- Dutch: “Padstow”
- French: “Padstow”
- German: “Padstow”
- Gujarati: “પેડસ્ટો”
- Hebrew: “פדסטוב”
- Irish: “Lannwedhenek”
- Irish: “Padstow”
- Italian: “Padstow”
- Japanese: “パッドストー”
- Japanese: “パドストウ”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾಡ್ಸ್ಟೊ”
- Korean: “패드스토”
- Ladin: “Padstow”
- Latin: “Padstow”
- Lithuanian: “Padstau”
- Malagasy: “Padstow”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Padstow”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Padstow”
- Persian: “پادستو”
- Polish: “Padstow”
- Portuguese: “Padstow”
- Romanian: “Padstow”
- Russian: “Пэдстоу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Padstow”
- South Azerbaijani: “پادستو”
- Spanish: “Padstow”
- Swedish: “Padstow”
- Tamil: “பட்ஸ்டாவ்”
- Telugu: “పాడ్ స్టౌ”
- Turkish: “Padstow”
- Urdu: “پادستوو”
- Welsh: “Lannwedhenek”
- Welsh: “Padstow”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Padstow”. Photo: Bob Linsdell, CC BY 3.0.