The Trevaunance Cove neighbourhood
A meeting place, a fishing boat launch, a post-work walk…this beach brings people together
It’s 4pm, workers who’ve finished for the day and children swapping school uniform for a wetsuit, gather on the sand before heading into the sea.
Trevaunance Cove, a sandy inlet on the north coast, reminds Alex at Schooners – overlooking the beach – of a city park.
“It’s like the park for the village. So, you come down here at four o’clock – all the kids have finished school. They’re all jumping in the sea. Parents are getting a drink on the beach. It’s really well used.”
For the team at Schooners, some try and catch a wave during their breaks, while Alex likes to swim or walk the coast path after he’s finished for the day.
“Pizza and beer; it’s always a good mix. Andrea always comes up with new specials. We did a really good peachy one here. That with a Lightbulb on a sunny day…can’t go wrong.”
After a successful three-month pop up in 2023, Penryn-based brewery Verdant opened a pizza and beer restaurant at Schooners in. Now one of four Verdant venues in Cornwall – all with a different concept. For Schooners, it’s simply the combination of one of Verdant’s amusingly and inventively named beers with a freshly made Neapolitan pizza looking out on the Atlantic.
Alex recommends the signature beer, found on tap around the country, Lightbulb with a recent special – a Parma ham and peach pizza fresh from the wood-fired oven.
“Pizza and beer; it’s always a good mix. Andrea always comes up with new specials. We did a really good peachy one here. That with a Lightbulb on a sunny day…can’t go wrong.”
HERITAGE BAKING
A short walk from the beach, through the wooded valley, into St Agnes village brings you to St Agnes Bakery – one of the oldest bakeries in the UK.
“We’re basically a small scratch community bakery. We make everything by hand.”
Celebrating 120 years of bread and pasty making this year, the ovens at the back of the shop are still being started up in the early hours each day to bring handmade, fresh bread to villagers and visitors alike.
Sarah co-owns and operates St Agnes Bakery with her husband Nigel, who surprised Sarah a few years ago with the news that she would be taking her home baking experience onto the high street in the heart of St Agnes.
“We’re basically a small scratch community bakery. We make everything by hand…a huge range of products, from our lovely sourdough breads to pasties to sausage rolls to delicious, filled sandwiches and cakes,” says Sarah.
As well as tribal following for the bakery’s sausage rolls, and renowned pasties, the sourdough loaves aren’t on the shelves for very long each day.
Sarah finds walks along the coast path above Trevaunance Cove are the perfect time to “sort my thoughts out”.
“It’s a lovely, traditional fishing cove,” she says, “a very peaceful place to go at the end of the day, after work and it’s much loved by the community.”
Your Beach. Found
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