Although the village does get swamped by holidaymakers in the summer, Polperro is everyone’s idea of a Cornish fishing village, with its narrow streets, tightly packed ancient fishermen's houses, quaint harbour, and rugged coastline. Choose your time, and go out of season, and Polperro will live up to your expectations. In Cornish, Polperro is known as Porthpyra, meaning Pyra's cove. Who Pyra was we are not sure, but the anglicised name derives from the Pol river that runs through the…
