Polzeath

Until 1934 the main street through Polzeath village crossed the stream by means of a ford. A footbridge was provided for pedestrians which was sometimes washed away by winter storms. In 1934 the road bridge was built.

Polzeath was a favourite haunt of the poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, and is celebrated in some of his verse. 

In the first of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels, the children express disappointment that their holiday will not, as usual, be spent at Polzeath.