West country property sales - information about locations in the south west, including cornwall, devon, somerset and dorset
-TOP PROPERTY-
Helston, Cornwall
£335,000
This fantastic property is a 3 bedroomed detached house, with one en-suite. All bedrooms are doubles.
There is a utility room which leads into the kitchen.
The garden has room for 2 cars to be parked and is small and can be easily maintained.
To the rear of the property there is a wood store which also consists of a two storey wooded shed.
The property was recently built by the owners and is only 18 months old.
There is a lovely local pub down the road, opposite a handy shop with post office.
A beautiful country setting, next to Helford Creek.
Information about Porlock
Porlock is a quiet coastal village in Somerset, England, situated in a deep hollow below Exmoor, five miles west of Minehead. In the Domesday book the village was known as ‘Portloc’.The area has links with several Romantic poets, and R. D. Blackmore the author of Lorna Doone, and is popular with visitors. The visitor centre with exhibits and displays about the local area also on displays the bones of an Aurochs, discovered on Porlock beach in 1999.
The village adjoins a Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh nature reserve created when the lowland behind a high shingle embankment was breached by the sea in the 1990s, which has now been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Copses of white dead trees remind the visitor of when this was fresh water pasture. A picturesque, wooded combe called Hawkcombe leads about three miles from the village up to high open moorland. The stream, (which is called 'Hawkcombe Waters'), runs past an interesting Victorian hunting lodge, called The Cleeve, then underground beneath the Overstream Hotel in the center of the village. The South West Coast Path goes through Porlock, many walkers stopping rather than continuing on the gargantuan walk to Lynton. There is also a Coleridge Way walk. Culbone church is said to be the smallest church in England. The main structure is 12th century. Services are still held there, despite the lack of road access - it is a two-mile walk from Porlock Weir, and some 3-4 miles from Porlock itself.
Photographs of Porlock
