27/10/23 - The Cadgwith Cove Inn

Picture perfect Cornish Fishing Village for a new entry in the 2024 Good Beer Guide

Final walk of the week and we are heading to a couple of tiny coves, related to the pilchard fishing industry.

Cadgwith is that isolated, the signs tell you not to drive into the village. A car park available about 1/2 mile up the hill.

By God, it's pretty.

Could be an Hovis Advert

This walk becomes an ecumenical matter but starts off with a natural feature. A puff and pant onto the high cliffs to look at the Devil's Frying Pan - a collapsed sea cave - from above.

Staring at the Sun

Inland to unlocked churches - first Grade and then Ruan Minor - with a Pilgrimage place, St Ruan's Well inbetween.

Guide Dog in Training gone off with the Zoomies

St Ruan's Well

Ruan Minor Church

A drop down to the sea, to discover a ruined pilchard processing "factory" at Poltesco and then back over the cliffs for lunch.

The Cadgwith Cove Inn easy to spot on approach. We tick all the boxes to be allowed entrance.

Our Destination

To be fair, warm enough to sit outside

We start with the front snug to ourselves. A chat with the owner, the first he new of making the bible was an email to say they had been selected. The local Camra branch appear to follow the full mystery shopper modus operandi and he was unaware of their visit. He says they were probably impressed by how far the beer line has to run for the cellar to the tap room.

For the first time on this trip, I find Betty Stoggs. I am provided with the history of Skinner's recent closure and reopening by another brewery. Yet he says its not what it was and he often has to send barrels back.

And he was right - it wasn't a great pint.  

But still - a fine place for meal of the week and a day when I can proclaim myself truly middle class. We managed to spend £82 on lunch.

Monkfish and sea bream Thai curry racking up the dollar.

Our final walk of the week, so we'll put it down to a celebration feast.

Our place in the snug

Walk Details

Distance - 4.5 Miles

Geocaches - 2

Walk Inspiration - AA 1001 Walks, Walk 22