You can, if you wish, go directly to the route planner section by following this button:

For more instructions read on. 

You will be faced with a page containing some boxes into which you should enter your requirements. First of all you can select from Great Britain, Ireland or Continental Europe from a drop-down menu, giving you flexibility to plan your journey whether you are driving to the Inn from home or abroad. As well as asking you for a start point and destination, you may also, if you wish, enter 'vias', which are places that you need to pass through on your journey. This can be very useful as under normal circumstances the selected route would not go near to these places, but using vias stipulates that they are places the route should pass through. It is also possible to specify that you wish to avoid any combination of motorways or toll roads. 

In many instances there will be more than one match for the places that you have typed. The site tries to second guess you, and tends to get it right most of the time, although there is a drop-down box to make changes if it failed to guess your selections correctly. Just put your home in the 'Start' box, and 'Polperro' as the destination. 

Once you have checked that the details are correct, and have clicked on the yellow 'Proceed' button, you will be taken to a page that displays the results. As an example, I chose to go from Chelsea, London to the Crumplehorn Inn via Stonehenge. The route is correct, and I am given the following additional information: 

From:  Chelsea.,Greater London 
To:  Polperro,Cornwall 
Via:  Stonehenge,Wiltshire 
Total Distance:  235.1 Miles 
Total Time:  5 hr 4 min 

The instructions are very clear with details of all the road names, which exits to take on roundabouts and very detailed information for each leg of the journey. Traffic blackspots are highlighted together with a telephone hotline number to check traffic conditions from your mobile telephone. Motorway services stations, (if you opted to use motorways), are also clearly marked along the route, as are the motorway junctions that you should use. 

In addition to the details of the route, the site also generates a map. For longer journeys it is possible to zoom in and then print off particular sections in more detail. For example, you may wish to concentrate upon the last few miles of your journey, close to your destination, as this is usually the bit where most people get lost. It is also possible to reverse the route, giving you details of how to make the return trip. You may not think that this is necessary, but many of the details for roundabout exits will be different, as it tells whether to take the first or third exit and sometimes the motorway junctions you need to use also change for a return journey. There may also be one way sections of road. 

For a free route planner this utility is marvellous. The site is updated constantly as routes change, and the A.A. has a good reputation for this type of information. So next time you're off on your travels remember to ask the A.A. for your route planning advice - you won't regret it! 

When you arrive in Polperro, 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 marked 'Reserved', 2 - 9.