Location

Badeca Cottage is located in the village of Delabole on the B3314. Delabole is famous for its historic slate quarry and provides a convenient base for a holiday - within walking distance to all local amenities, there are two pubs, post office, park with play-area, Ferndale farm coarse fishing lakes, shops (including a very well stocked Spa convenience store). Hairdressers, garage and fish & chips shop. There is an indoor swimming pool and leisure centre in nearby Camelford.

Trebarwith Strand, which is a beautiful sandy beach at low tide and popular with surfers is about 1.1/4 miles away by road (nearer if you are willing to walk), where the Port William pub has fresh food and fine views. Tregardock Beach is a little further and as the last mile or so only accessible by foot, it guarantees a quiet spot even in the height of summer

Surrounding Area
Explore the magnificent North Cornwall coastline with its fantastic beaches, places like Polzeath and Bude where rolling Atlantic breakers offer exhilarating year-round surfing.

The quaint old market town of Camelford is approximately 4 miles away with shops and pubs, or maybe walk around the nearby mining village of St Breward.  “Brown Willy” Cornwall’s only mountain and its dramatic neighbour “Roughtor”, can be accessed by foot or National Trust car park at the foot of roughtor from where you can continue to walk on to Brown Willy and the popular Jamaica Inn if you are feeling energetic.

Boscastle is a picturesque village and harbour

Tintagel village with its selection of shops and pubs is a couple of miles by road with stunning cliff walks down to castle beach, bossiney cove or rocky valley. The medieval ruins of `Kings Arthur’s Castle’.

Port Issac picturesque fishing village that provided the backdrop to the film “Saving Grace” and where the popular TV drama Doc Martin is filmed.

Rock and Padstow and the beautiful sandy beach at Daymer Bay are all within easy reach. Padstow or `Padstein’ as it has been coined is a popular fishing village home to
Rick Stein’s bistro and restaurant.

Wadebridge 
is approximately 10 miles away there you will find a variety of shops, supermarkets, bars, restaurants and take-aways, there is also a nice comfortable cinema. If cycling is your thing, then The Camel Trail provides up to 17 miles of traffic free cycling along the river Camel a greast way to stay fit while enjoying the scenery.

Watergate Bay - Newquay Treat yourselves to a fabulous lunch at Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant “Fifteen Cornwall” ( highly recommended).
Don’t miss a day out in St Ives where you can enjoy the Tate Gallery and Barbara Hepworth Museum


Alternatively head inland on to Bodmin Moor to discover its archaeological heritage and mining history in this truly wild area and visit Rough Tor one of the highest points among the Tors which 18th century druids worshipped as rock idols.

There is an 18 hole golf course just a mile away and others include Bowood, St Kew, St Enodoc, Roserrow and Trevose all of which are challenging. Seafishing trips, riding and moorland pony trekking, national trust historic houses include Lanhydrock and Pencarrow and not forgetting of course `The Eden Project’ and the lost gardens of Heligan.