During 2024 the Cornwall National Landscape Monumental Improvement Project, funded primarily by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and other partners, produced new interpretation tools for many of the 40 sites...
James Richards
The key landscape characteristics of this section of Cornwall National Landscape can be split into two distinct areas: Fowey Ria and Polperro Coast. The approach to this section sees a marked change in character from that of the industrial, China clay related landscape of Par Docks and the busy nature of the holiday park at Par Sands. Between Black Bottle Rock in the west and Pencarrow Head in the east is the white sand and shingle beach of Lantic Bay, only accessible from the South West Coast Path.
This section of the AONB consists of the Fowey Ria and its tributaries and extends south of Lostwithiel, west of Fowey over Gribbin Head to the coast near Par Sands and eastwards to Portloe on the outskirts of west Looe. As with the South Coast Central section, South Coast Eastern has two distinct landscape character types; the River Fowey, which is primarily a ria landscape, and the open coastal areas that extend eastwards from Polruan to Portloe. e coastal section also includes a small area of land west of Gribbin Head facing on to St Austell Bay and takes in the small coastal settlement of Polkerris.
Scheduled monuments in Section 10
