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Porthcothan

Human settlement in England

Porthcothan

Location within Cornwall

OS grid referenceSW8574572018Civil parish

St Eval

Unitary authority

Cornwall

Ceremonial county

Cornwall

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townPADSTOWPostcode districtPL28Dialling code01841Police Devon and Cornwall Fire Cornwall Ambulance South Western UK Parliament

North Cornwall

List of places: UK; England; Cornwall

50°30′29″N 5°01′20″W / 50.5081°N 5.0221°W / 50.5081; -5.0221

Porthcothan (Cornish: Porthkehodhon)^[1] is a coastal village between Newquay and Padstow in Cornwall, England, UK.^[2] It is within the civil parish of St Eval.

Porthcothan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

The sandy beach is popular with tourists and surfers and is patrolled by lifeguards during the day in the summer; local surf schools sometimes use the beach for tuition. There is a pay-and-display car park and a small grocery shop near the beach. In January 2014, storm Anne reduced a local arch, Jan Leverton's Rock, to rubble.^[3]^[4]

History

As with many coves in Cornwall Porthcothan has legends of smuggling, and there is a large cave some mile inland that is reputed to have been used to store the smuggled goods.^[5]

Notable residents

Notable former residents include the early science fiction author J. D. Beresford^[6] and the playwright Nick Darke.^[7] The novelist D. H. Lawrence lived locally at one time, but did not get on with the local populace who accused him of spying during World War I.^[5]^[6]

References

^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
^ Ordnance Survey Landranger 200; Newquay, Padstow & surrounding area, 1:50 000. 1988
^ "UK storms: Further flooding risk as heavy rain forecast". BBC News. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
^ "Storms smash iconic Cornish rock formation at Porthcothan". Western Morning News. 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b Rendell, Joan (1983). North Cornwall in the Old Days. St Teath: Bossiney Books. p. 25. ISBN 0-906456-79-7.
^ ^a ^b Harrison, Andrew (2017). ""A new continent of the soul": D.H. Lawrence, Porthcothan and the necessary fiction of Cornwall". Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies. 4. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
^ Michell, Roger (15 June 2005). "Obituary: Nick Darke". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2019.