Padstow
Picturesque fishing port originally named St.Petroc-stow
Best Known for the "Obby Oss" festival that takes place on May Day and the associated festivities.
The habour town is not on the coast as might be expected but about 1 mile down the estuary
Very popualar with the holiday maker either for sailing ,walking Camel Trail or the beaches.
Good restaurants, boat trips etc

Originally named Petroc-stow, after the Welsh missionary St.Petroc, who landed at near by Trebetherick AD 500.
Petroc arrived one hot summer,he made many converts to Christianity by striking a rock with his staff producing a stream of cold water.
Best Known for the "Obby Oss" festival whose origins are lost in antiquity.
it starts at midnight on may eve, when towns people sing the morning song ,in the morning the town is dressed with greenery and flowers are placed around the maypole.
the climax arrives when male dancers cavort through the town dress in a black frame-hung cape and gruesom mask lead by the "Teasers" he then tries to catch young maidens under his cape finally at midnight on may day the croud sings it's death until its resurection the following may eve.