Camelford Town
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sports centre with swimming pool, library, museum and gallery, Art Gallery and other cultural and intellectual activities.
Camelford’s location which offers convenient access to both Bodmin Moor and the North Cornwall coast means it attracts a significant number of visitors’. Tourist appeal at nearby sites – golf course, sports centre and swimming pool, North Cornwall Museum, the Cycling Museum and Crowdy Reservoir – used for water sports. The Countryman Hotel is on the north-east side of town.
Camelford is, as its name suggests, beside a crossing point on the principal river of this district. The Camel rises just four kilometres to the north, but is already a fairly strong water body set in a steep-sided valley with a narrow floor by the time it reaches the town.
Winds whipping in off the sea and whistling over the fine quarrying village of Delabole are rarely experienced as such bitter beasts by the citizens of nicely sheltered Camelford. While they may therefore be warmer, the people receive a little less sunshine (being in a valley) and have to climb out of the old settlement to its later extensions to experience the extensive and inspiring views over the north Cornish countryside. Roughtor and Brown Willy, the two great tor-topped hills of Bodmin Moor dominate
The Town
The CAMELOT of legend, Camelford is the smallest town in N. Cornwall. It is regarded as a local centre for the beautiful coastal and rural landscape from St Juliot to Trebarwith and inland to the Moor. It plays an important role in providing services and facilities to the surrounding dispersed rural communities.
There are several shops and pubs in the lower part of town and although there is no longer a rail link, there are daily buses to Wadebridge, Bude, Truro, Exeter and Launceston and to Bodmin and district. Camelford hosts a comprehensive school (Sir James Smith’s School) that draws children from a wide area and the award-winning North Cornwall Museum whose subject matter also covers a wide area including Bodmin Moor.
Camelford holds an important central position. The town contains a good range of facilities, and therefore provides an important service and employment centre for a large geographical area, albeit a sparsely populated one. The future planning approach will reinforce this role by providing for further development during the plan period. It is indeed a small town providing a wide range of facilities for its hinterland - solicitor, accountant, banks, estate agents, shops, pubs, chapels, schools, doctors’ surgery, ambulance and police stations, modern
