Pubs with Rooms in Padstow

Padstow sits on the western bank of the Camel Estuary, its harbour still a working one — fishing boats alongside the tourist boats that run trips out to the river mouth and beyond. The town’s narrow streets, Lanadwell Street and South Quay chief among them, are where all three of our pubs sit, each within a few minutes’ walk of the water.

The London Inn, on Lanadwell Street, is three fishermen’s cottages knocked into one — a proper local with real ales and five rooms above. The Golden Lion, a few doors along on the same street, is Padstow’s oldest pub at over 400 years old, and doubles as the stable for the town’s red ’oss during the May Day ’Obby ’Oss celebrations, one of the oldest surviving folk customs in England. The Old Custom House, right on South Quay looking out over the harbour, is the largest of the three with 23 en-suite rooms and a kitchen built around fresh local seafood.

There’s no railway station in Padstow — the branch line closed in 1967, and its old trackbed is now the Camel Trail, a genuinely popular cycle route into town from Wadebridge and beyond. The nearest working station is Bodmin Parkway, about 12 miles away.