Walking in Cornwall St Mawes - Roseland - St Anthony's

Portloe lies on the Roseland Peninsula on the south coast of Cornwal.

The steep valley that runs down to the sea in which Portloe sits has ensured a lack of development and many buildings are as thy were built.

Portloes naturally sheltered position saw village grow in the seventeenth and eightheenth centuries as a busy pilchard fishing port.

At one time there were there were more than fifty boats fishing here - now only a few boats work from the cove mainly for crab and lobster.

The Roseland Peninsula St Mawes and Tregony