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Travel to Polperro by car is no longer the long, arduous drive that it used to be, in the sixties and seventies. Major improvements to the UK motorway system, and the A38 Expressway, have resulted in main arterial roads direct into Cornwall from all over the UK. Once in Cornwall, the A38 and A30, enable travel to the western-most part of Cornwall in a relaxed and stress free manner. As one American visitor commented recently, 'the main roads are fine, but if you happen to get lost, I sure wonder if these roads are really meant to be two-way'. ? 

There isn't even a stop sign or a traffic light between Plymouth and most of the major mainland UK cities. And express coach services connect the city with other towns and cities across the country.

I should also point out that 'Cornish Hedges', are in fact made of stone, and soil, covered in native wild flowers, grass and shrubbery. It is better to give them a few extra inches clearance. 

Travel from London is very easy, our capital is surrounded by the M25, which connects to our motorway system. The easiest route is to take the M4 west, and then when you reach the M5 near Bristol, you travel southwest on the M5, which then turns into the A38, which is a dual carriageway all the way to the Tamar Bridge crossing The River Tamar to Cornwall. 

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A more scenic way from London, (and the mileage is slightly shorter) is to travel from the M25, onto the M3, and then the A303, (dual carriageway most of the way) past historic Stonehenge, and onto the M5 at Exeter, and once again, southwest to the Tamar Bridge, near Plymouth. Polperro is just 40 minutes away. These are the directions from the M5.

The southwestern terminus of the M5 at Exeter becomes the A38 and you stay on it following signs to Plymouth, however DON'T head for Plymouth city centre, just stay on the A38 heading for the Tamar Bridge. There are 30 mph, speed cameras on the Tamar Bridge in both directions. The A38 then goes through the villages of Landrake, (there is a 40 mph, speed camera at the top of the hill either side of the green footbridge and in the dip at Notter Bridge) and Tideford. When you come to a large roundabout at a place called Trerulefoot, turn left onto the A374, and after about half mile turn right, onto the A387 signed for Looe, stay on that road, through lots of small hamlets, including Hessenford, Nomansland and Widegates, where the road changes into the B3253. You descend the hill into Looe and turn left, the road goes over the bridge at Looe and bear right, up the hill signed to Polperro (A387). The road levels out for 3 miles and you will then see the 'Welcome to Polperro' sign and descend the hill into the village. We are the first place in the village on the left, opposite the main car park. If you were to drive in a straight line, you would drive straight in through the covered lych gate. We have numbered reserved car parking spaces for our guests.
 
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