Located on the more sheltered eastern side of the Lizard Peninsula is the picture postcard Cornish fishing village of Cadgwith. The village is centred around the small cove where the shingle beach doubles as the harbour. Although fishing has declined from being the sole activity in the village it still plays an important part in local life. Now-a-days the small fleet is more oriented towards crab and lobster than the pilchard that were landed in their millions during the villages heyday.
Tourism is now the villages bread and butter with many of the villages idyllic cottages let out as self catering holiday accommodation. It does get busy here in the summer but fortunately it is just far enough off the beaten track to not be a victim of its own qualities.
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is there are more thatched cottages on the eastern side of the Lizard and Helford area. I’ve always attributed this to the abundance of thatching materials from the abundant woodland combined with the distance from areas of natural slate production on the North Coast. I could of course, as I often am, be completely wrong!
A Postcard from Cornwall 