Port Isaac, Cornwall
	click to enlarge   This attractive fishing village, with its colour washed, irregular house walls and weathered, twisted slate roofs seemingly stacked one on top of another in a narrow and steep valley leading down to the shingle beach and harbour, has changed little over the years. The houses clustered round the harbour are a variety of styles mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth century.   click to enlarge The alleyways between the dwellings are very narrow, some no more than two feet wide, the most well known being "Squeezibelly Alley". It is picturesque village and harbour best visited on foot, as, for the driver, the roads are steep, very narrow, and tortuous. Park above the village and walk along the cliff path down to the harbour. click to enlarge click to enlarge   The village has much on view that is a reminder of its historic fishing past. Once, Port Isaac boasted one of the largest pilchard processing palaces in Cornwall, with the majority of the population employed in the industry, or at sea on one of the fifty odd fishing vessels that used to work from the harbour in the late nineteenth century. Today, there are still several fishing boats working out of this attractive north coast harbour. click to enlarge   click to enlarge click to enlarge		Advertise on this site click to enlarge click to enlarge

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