Wadebridge

Wadebridge Bookshop43 Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, Cornwall PL27 7DR, 01208 812489A cute little shop with ocean-blue window frames and an old-fashioned hanging sign, the Wadebridge Bookshop specialises in publications on the Cornish language, the heritage and history of the south-west, local guide maps for the best walking, surfing and outdoor leisure, and an efficient out-of-print search service.

Independent bookshops in south-west of the UK 2011

Coast - to-coast trail, Cornwall Adding to its list of cycle holiday itineraries around Cornwall, Cornish Cycle Tours has launched a 91-mile coast-to-coast trip, between Wadebridge in the north and St Just in the south (you can go either way).

New British cycling trips 2010

Wadebridge, if only for the sake of the grand old bridge, originally built of seventeen arches, in the year 1485, by Thomas Lovibond, Vicar of Egloshayle.

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The church of St. Breock is distant nearly a mile from Wadebridge, on the western side of the river, and is perhaps still more delightful in its position; it is noteworthy for its monuments, which, however, have been much displaced.

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Yet it is more easy of access from Wadebridge than the Land's End or the Logan from

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Lovibond was not only a bridge-builder; he also erected the fine tower of his church at Egloshayle (the mother-parish of Wadebridge).

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But it cannot be claimed that Wadebridge is on the coast, and we must retreat seaward.

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Wadebridge has suffered by the opening of the railway to Padstow, but it can boast that its rail to Bodmin was the second line to be opened in England.

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If he walked out to Stepper Point, or strode some miles westward to Trevose Head, the first land sighted in old days by Canadian timber vessels trading to Padstow, the majestic sweep of coast, the jagged headlands and scattered rocks would certainly suggest Cornwall; but the estuary of the Camel from Wadebridge to Padstow, although beautiful, has no claim to the epithet wild.

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Paddington to Newquay, to say nothing of the morning coach which meets the South Western train from Waterloo at Wadebridge.

The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907