St Tudy

St Tudy is a village in the Camel valley about 5 miles northeast of Wadebridge, on the western edge of Bodmin Moor. The village has a Grade I listed 15th-century church, the St Tudy Inn (a 16th-century pub with rooms serving local food), and a primary school. The surrounding landscape is a mix of farmland and the open moorland that begins as the ground rises to the east.

The village sits at a crossroads between the coast and the moor. Bodmin Moor is directly accessible for walking, with Rough Tor and Brown Willy - Cornwall’s two highest peaks at 1,313 and 1,378 feet respectively - reachable from car parks to the east. The Camel Trail is accessible from Wadebridge, and the north coast beaches at Polzeath, Rock, and Port Isaac are about 20 minutes by car.

St Tudy is the kind of place that works as a quiet, affordable base for visitors who want to combine coast and moorland without paying coastal prices. The surrounding farms offer converted barns and cottages for holiday lets. Wadebridge has supermarkets, cafes, and the Regal cinema. Bodmin town, with its jail attraction and railway heritage line, is about 6 miles south.