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Once a small port exporting stone and china clay this village now attracts tourists and has a large camping and caravan site on the adjacent sands.
©Tony Atkin
The St Austell River has eroded its western bank at this point and exposed three sets of utilities piping.
©John Gibson
A mixture of old and new bank repairs are visible at this point: in the foreground, the wooden piles have failed and are slowly rotting away; diagonally opposite, the rectangular profile of gabion baskets, heavily galvanised steel wire cages filled with rocks, indicates a more modern solution with hopefully a much longer life.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.3km north<br/>But don't worry about the doggie-doos. This notice is at the Pentewan end of the trail.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km north<br/>At the southern end of the Pentewan Valley Trail; in the background is West End, by the St Austell River bridge.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Old wharf and moorings to the eastern side of Pentewan harbour.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Concrete foundations of the former sluice gate, part of the water management arrangements at the seaward end of the Saint Austell River.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This peaceful scene belies the industrial past of this little harbour. It was constructed to export china clay from the hinterland and import coal, limestone and cement, all transported by the Pentewan railway along the valley of the St Austell River. From the outset the harbour was beset with problems of silting up by sand borne down the river from the local china clay and tin processing works. In the 1920s a block works was established to utilise this sand in the making of concrete building blocks, but this closed down some time ago.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Looking eastwards across the harbour towards the lock gates and the silted-up outer passage to the sea. The old harbour buildings are still in business use. The harbour is privately owned and there is no public right of way across the property. Current access is permissive only.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Quay side with old safety railings, beside the lock gates at the harbour entrance and looking north-west towards Pentewan village.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>This old windlass is one of a pair situated either side of the harbour entrance that were once used to operate the lock gates.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>A view across Pentewan harbour, which was connected to St Austell by the Pentewan railway. China clay and tin were exported from here and coal was imported. The harbour fell into disuse when the entrance passage silted up in 1916.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>The harbour is now non-functioning (for many years) because the channel into it is always silting up with sand from the beach. The village depends on the holiday trade.
©mike hancock
Dist:0.6km north<br/>This is heavily silted entrance channel to the harbour basin at Pentewan.
©Phil Williams

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