Bodinnick

Bodinnick is a small village on the east bank of the Fowey estuary, directly across the water from Fowey town. A vehicle and passenger ferry links Bodinnick to Fowey - the crossing takes a few minutes and the car ferry runs all year apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day (a passenger service runs on the last two), providing an alternative to the longer inland road route via Lostwithiel. The Old Ferry Inn, a 17th-century inn, sits at the water’s edge beside the ferry slipway.

Ferryside, the distinctive house beside the ferry landing, is where Daphne du Maurier first saw the property in 1926; she lived there and wrote several early novels in the house. Hall Walk, a National Trust coastal path, begins at the top of Bodinnick lane and runs north along the cliff and wooded creek edge to Pont Pill and Lanteglos church, part of a circuit of about 4 miles that returns via Polruan and the ferry. The path gives views across the Fowey estuary to the town and along the river toward Golant.

The village is very small - a handful of houses and the pub on the main lane down to the ferry. Fowey’s full range of restaurants, galleries, and independent shops is a short ferry crossing away. Holiday cottages in Bodinnick are in high demand because of the combination of estuary views and ferry access to Fowey.