The nearby small town of Wadebridge is traditional and unspoilt, with many small and interesting local shops, a good cinema, several pubs and restaurants and the famous Camel trail for cycling to Padstow, which is bustling with eating and shopping opportunities, (Padstow is 20 minutes away by car from our house).
The countryside surrounding the house seems untouched by time - natural and not commercialized. However, the Eden project and Lost Gardens of Heligan are fairly close and the sea is twenty minutes away in each direction, either side of the Camel estuary.