Things to do in St. Minver, Cornwall
St Minver is a tiny parish and village on the Camel river estuary in North Cornwall.
St Minver is steeped in legends including a tale that the Doom Bar, a sand bar where the estuary meets the sea, had a mermaid who put a curse on sailors navigating the dangerous sand bar into St Minver.
Certainly, it was the site of many shipwrecks and is now immortalised as the name of a local ale.
The current building has Norman and Saxon architecture dating back to the 13th century but there was probably a wooden church on the site much earlier.
The church has a copy of the "Vinegar Bible", so-called due to a misprint in the 1717 edition which has the "parable of the vinegar", rather than the "parable of the vineyard". The bible can be viewed privately by arrangement.
St Enodoc Church is particularly well known. It was built on the sand dunes in the 15th century and eventually became totally covered by them.
Present Day St Minver
The village of St Minver is situated at the intersection of two unclassified Cornish lanes. It is surrounded by woodlands which were once part of the estate of the old manor.
The village has a pub, post office and some charming cottages and is dominated by the tall spire on the parish church. The church is worth visiting when open and inside is a brass plaque to Roger Opy dated 1517. The spire was rebuilt in 1875. In the graveyard there is a war memorial for the local men who died in the world wars.
Local social events focus on the Perceval Institute building.
Things to do in St Minver
There are two golf clubs close to St Minver: the St Enodoc Golf Club at St Minver Lowlands and the Rosecarrow Golf and Country Club.
Prince Harry, the Rothschilds, the Sainsbury family and pop star Jay Kay of Jamiroquai fame have all been known to fly in by private helicopter.
Rock has an excellent watersports centre for surfing, dinghy racing, sailing, water skiing and windsurfing.
A ferry operates across the Camel Estuary to Padstow, a charming port which is famous for its fish restaurants owned by TV chef Rick Stein.
The South West Coastal Path runs around the headland at St Minver offering pleasant coastal walks and the nearby Camel Trail is ideal for cyclists.
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Days Out in St. Minver
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Pencarrow (5 Miles)*
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Old Mill Herbary (7 Miles)*
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Carnewas and Bedruthan Steps (8 Miles)*
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Tintagel Castle (9 Miles)*
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Tintagel Toy Museum (9 Miles)*
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Lanhydrock House (10 Miles)*
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Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum and Country Park (13 Miles)*
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Newquay Zoo (13 Miles)*
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Restormel Castle (13 Miles)*-english-heritage-154x115.jpg)
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Trerice (13 Miles)*
Places to Visit near St. Minver
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Polzeath (2 Miles)*
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Padstow (3 Miles)*
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Port Isaac (3 Miles)*
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St. Eval (8 Miles)*
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Bodmin (8 Miles)*
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Tintagel (9 Miles)*
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Boscastle (12 Miles)*
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Luxulyan (12 Miles)*
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Newquay (13 Miles)*
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Lostwithiel (13 Miles)*
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