page_title: Polzeath
section_title: Literary associations
hierarchical_section_title: Polzeath / Literary associations
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of the plaque on Pentire Point, north Cornwall, UK commemorating the composition of the poem 'For The Fallen' The photograph was taken by me in 2005
context_page_description: Polzeath is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately 6 miles north west of Wadebridge on the Atlantic coast.
  Polzeath has a sandy beach and is popular with holiday-makers and surfers. The beach is 1,500 feet wide and extends 1,200 feet from the seafront at low water; however, most of the sand is submerged at high water. At exceptionally high spring tides the sea floods the car park at the top of the beach.
  Polzeath beach is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer and is described on the RNLI website as: ... a wide, flat beach with some shelter from winds, it sees good quality surf and is quite often extremely crowded.
  Dolphins may sometimes be spotted in the bay and the coastline north of Polzeath is a good area for seeing many types of birds including corn buntings and puffins.
  The main street runs along the seafront and has a parade of shops catering for holidaymakers and residents. There are pubs, cafés, restaurants, a caravan site and several camping sites in the immediate area.
context_section_description: Polzeath was a favourite haunt of the poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, and is celebrated in some of his verse. Another poet, Laurence Binyon, wrote the Remembrance Day ode For the Fallen in 1914 while sitting on The Rumps, Polzeath or "Polseath" as it was called, during World War I.
  In the first of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels, the eponymous children express disappointment that their holiday will not, as usual, be spent at Polzeath.
  The cartoonist Posy Simmonds created a fictitious place in Cornwall called "Tresoddit". When the BBC made the short film Tresoddit for Easter in 1991, it was filmed in and around Polzeath.
  The BBC adaptation of Winston Grahams's Poldark series of books filmed some scenes at Pentireglaze. In his book Poldark's Cornwall Graham described this as "an area which could hardly have changed in a century".
caption: For The Fallen plaque at Rumps Point
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