'Deep and Tufted to the Edge'
‘ We used to picnic where the thrift, Grew deep and tufted to the edge;’ Trebetherick
John Betjeman
Polzeath is a small village situated on the north coast of Cornwall, home to a fantastic beach and one of the world’s most renowned surfing destinations. The beach is a magnificent stretch of golden sand situated between Pentire Head to the north and the mouth of the Camel Estuary. A haven for surfers and beach lovers alike, lifeguards are on the beach during the daytime in the summer season.
It was a favourite haunt of the late Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, and is celebrated in some of his verse. ‘In-coming tide, Atlantic waves, slapping the sunny cliffs’ he wrote in his poem 'Seaside Golf'. One of the many poems inspired by his days down in Cornwall. He would come down by train to Padstow and cross the water to Trebetherick, next door to Polzeath. When he died in 1984, his body was laid to rest in the little graveyard at St.Enodoc Church, right in the middle of the golf course.
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'Deep and Tufted to the Edge'
‘ We used to picnic where the thrift, Grew deep and tufted to the edge;’ Trebetherick
John Betjeman
Polzeath is a small village situated on the north coast of Cornwall, home to a fantastic beach and one of the world’s most renowned surfing destinations. The beach is a magnificent stretch of golden sand situated between Pentire Head to the north and the mouth of the Camel Estuary. A haven for surfers and beach lovers alike, lifeguards are on the beach during the daytime in the summer season.
It was a favourite haunt of the late Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, and is celebrated in some of his verse. ‘In-coming tide, Atlantic waves, slapping the sunny cliffs’ he wrote in his poem 'Seaside Golf'. One of the many poems inspired by his days down in Cornwall. He would come down by train to Padstow and cross the water to Trebetherick, next door to Polzeath. When he died in 1984, his body was laid to rest in the little graveyard at St.Enodoc Church, right in the middle of the golf course.
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