Accommodation
Elmswood House Hotel is attractive, well equipped and conveniently sited close to the church at the top of Tehidy Road, while Polbrean B&B offers B&B in Woodland Avenue.
An exceptional award-winning detached modernWheelchair-Friendly bungalow provides wheel-chair friendly self-catering accommodation. The bungalow has wide doors and level access having been designed and built specifically for the user of a wheel chair. It won an award from the Cornish Buildings Group in 1985 as the best new house in Cornwall.
Transport
A Bus service runs through the village and also to nearby Par. Details can be searched for at First Group
The nearest mainline train station is at Par
Now that you're here
The writer Daphne du Maurier, lived locally and is perhaps most famous for her novel "Jamaica Inn". The title of another of her novels, "The House on the Strand" is a translation of the word "Tywardreath" and refers to the priory that once stood here and was one of some 350 such religious houses in Europe administered from Cluny in France.
Don't miss the Eden Project - an international visitor attraction only three miles away.
Other horticultural delights can be found at Marsh Villa Gardens near the Par Railway Station and at the Hidden Valley Gardens near Treesmill. The latter also offers accommodation.
Mevagissey Ferries offer trips from Fowey across St Austell Bay to Mevagissey.
Looking at the county as a whole, Cornwall Calling and CornishConneXions both offer tourist information about Cornwall.
Creative
Have a look at Jan's Van for entertainment for children of all ages.
Artists Ann Foster and Tony Foster both live in the village. Their websites includes views in and around the village as well as images of their work.
Details and timetable of the du Maurier Festival held yearly during the early part of May are available on the Restormal Council website.
Local Enterprise
SUL Language School provide customised English language learning and cultural immersion programmes for everyone.
Steve Nott & Julie have a website of a really brilliant selection of greetings and every occasion cards. . . all hand made the nott collection (they also undertake computer and network repairs and builds).
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