2008
SX0080 : St Endellion: Port Gaverne harbour
taken 16 years ago, near to Port Gaverne, Cornwall, England
St Endellion: Port Gaverne harbour
John Warden Page, writing 111 years ago, described Port Gaverne as ‘ a pleasant little inlet with a sandy beach at the head, about which stand a few whitewashed cottages and me teste a very snug little inn .. When I was last there, a coaster lay at anchor waiting for her cargo of slate from the great quarries at Delabole ..’ But the railway took the trade and Port Gaverne suffered
[Source: John Lloyd Warden Page. The North Coast of Cornwall, Truro, 1897, 103]
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