Angharad Rees in costume as a ragged girl, sitting barefoot in long grass — Angharad Rees, Demelza in 1975 (PBS publicity, 1977). PBS · Public domain

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PoldarkBal: the mines, the coves, the moor

Ross comes home to a ruined mine and works it back to life. The mines are still on the cliffs. One engine still runs on steam.

The beam is working.

Eleanor Tomlinson smiling, with red curls and a pink top — Eleanor Tomlinson, Demelza from 2015, in December 2014. Ibsan73 · CC BY 2.0

Two Demelzas, forty years apart.

Levant, Pendeen

Work the beam.
Wind the mines to grass.

It is the only Cornish beam engine anywhere in the world still in steam on its original site. Volunteers known as the “Greasy Gang” restored it after 60 years out of use. Every load you bring up is a mine you can stand beside.

Level 4 of 4 · 0 strokes worked · 0 of 5 loads at grass

Granite engine houses with a black headframe and a tall chimney on a green clifftop over the sea — Levant: the winding engine house, pump engine house and headgear, July 2026. ArildV · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tressiders Rolling Mill on screen

Levant Mine and Beam Engine

Levant’s buildings play Tressiders Rolling Mill. In series two Ross and Francis argue here, though the actors were standing on a platform somewhere else.

The engine was built in 1840; a tour takes in the engine, the skip shaft, the Man Engine tunnel and the winder house.

National Trust. After storm damage, open only for pre-booked guided tours on Mondays and Tuesdays; a tour takes about an hour and a half, and the Man Engine tunnel has a curved staircase with no handrail. Adults £14, children £7, family £35. Book ahead: walk-ups are not guaranteed. TR19 7SX.

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National Trust

Levant: the beam engine tour

Pendeen, near St Just · Adults £14 · children £7 · family £35

A guided tour of the engine in steam, the skip shaft, the Man Engine tunnel and the winder house, about an hour and a half. After storm damage, tours run on Mondays and Tuesdays only, pre-booked.

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The Gurnard’s Head

Zennor, the Tin Coast

A dining pub with rooms on the Atlantic coast between St Ives and St Just, open all year: a base for the Tin Coast, the Crowns and Levant. Pictured: the Crowns at Botallack.

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Land’s End and the Lizard

Run the tide.
Watch the beach go.

Two people swimming in green surf in a small cove while two others watch from the sand — New Year’s Day swimmers at Porthgwarra, 2015. Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

Low water

Tide Low water

Low water: the sand shows, and the tunnels lead down to it.

Series 1 · St Levan, near Land’s End

Porthgwarra

Ross swims in the cove while Demelza watches from the clifftop.

The pilchard fishing scene is filmed at Porthgwarra.

Mark Daniels escapes through the tunnel where Ross keeps his boat.

The sand shows only at low tide; when the tide is in, it is easy and safe to swim from the slipway.

A small cove with a slipway. The sand shows only at low tide; at high tide you can swim from the slipway. The Minack Theatre is a mile east. TR19 6JW.

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Poldark Locations Tour with a driver-guide

Pick-up in central Cornwall · £650 per car, one to five people

Eight hours in a private car with a Cornish driver-guide: Bodmin Moor, Charlestown, Botallack and the Tin Coast, Levant, Porthgwarra and Holywell Bay. Daily at 9am by arrangement, except 24 December to 1 January.

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The midpoint

Nampara is not a place.
It is five.

Ross’s home is a house on one moor, a valley on one coast and a cove on another. Set each piece and see how far the estate stretches.

No pieces set. Start with the house.

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Poldark’s Cornwall tours

From Perranporth and across Cornwall

Karen Colam’s guided tours from Perranporth: West Cornwall, the Lizard, and the north coast with access to the private house that plays Nampara. Quotes and dates on request.

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Church Cove, Gunwalloe

After the storm,
comb the sand.

The night-time wrecking scenes are filmed at Church Cove.

Next door is Dollar Cove, named after the Spanish ship San Salvador, wrecked there in 1669 with a cargo of silver dollars. People say coins still wash up on the beach after storms.

A sandy cove below a low green headland with fields beyond and blue sea in front — Church Cove and the headland at Gunwalloe, April 2010. Trevor Harris · CC BY-SA 2.0

The little church of St Wynwallow has a bell tower standing apart from it, and was once called the Church of the Storms. Dr Dwight Enys’s cottage stands on the cliffs about two miles along the coast towards Loe Bar.

National Trust. Good surf, but strong rip currents make it no beach for swimming or paddling; lifeguards in the summer months. Dogs are banned 10am–6pm in July and August. TR12 7QG.

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The storm has passed. Pick a patch of sand.

Corsham, Wiltshire

Truro is inland,
218 km from the sea it plays.

Over a bank holiday weekend in May 2014, Corsham’s High Street became the busy port of Truro for the first series.

A paved street of stone shopfronts and Georgian houses — Corsham High Street, September 2014. Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0

Corsham High Street, as it is.

The Red Lion became an inn and a haberdashery was made for the scenes; the Town Hall held the extras and props.

The crew never had to come back after the first series, but they shot so much that Corsham kept appearing.

A town about 20 minutes from Bath and 10 from Chippenham. Walk the High Street; the Red Lion and the Flemish Weaver are on it.

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A stone-walled harbour basin with a tall ship’s masts and white Georgian houses beyond — The inner harbour at Charlestown, July 2018. Amj2264 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Truro and Falmouth on the water

Charlestown

Charlestown doubles as Truro and Falmouth; Captain Andrew Blamey lives and sails from the inner harbour. Its beach and slipway play St Mary’s, on the Isles of Scilly, when Ross meets the exiled Mark Daniels in series two.

The village was built by the landowner Charles Rashleigh, to ship copper to South Wales and bring coal in. The Anny of Charlestown, a topsail schooner built in Denmark in 1930, is based in the harbour.

A working Georgian harbour village two miles from St Austell: walk the quays, see the tall ships, and find the Shipwreck Treasure Museum. PL25.

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A gabled stone manor house with tall windows behind a moat hedge — The front of Great Chalfield Manor, April 2013. Martin Dawes · CC BY-SA 2.0

Killewarren · 7 km from Corsham

Great Chalfield Manor

Great Chalfield Manor plays Killewarren, the home of Caroline and Dr Enys. It is still lived in by its family, the Floyds, which gave Killewarren a warmth a studio could not.

National Trust; the family still live here, so opening is limited. Check the days on the National Trust page before you go. SN12 8NH.

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St Austell Brewery

Pier House, Charlestown

Charlestown, PL25 3NJ

A pub with fifteen rooms on Charlestown’s Georgian harbour, the Truro and Falmouth of the series, with a sea-facing bar. Pictured: the inner harbour.

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The north coast

Ride the cliffs.

Reined in at Chapel Porth.

A roofless engine house and a round chimney on heathland against a blue sky and the sea — Wheal Coates engine house on the cliffs above Chapel Porth, November 2016. Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0

2015–2019 · Chapel Porth, St Agnes

Chapel Porth and Wheal Coates

Ross gallops along the clifftops above Chapel Porth.

Many of Poldark’s gallops along the clifftops were filmed on the cliffs above Chapel Porth.

Under the gorse and heather, the slopes are littered with mine shafts, wheel pits, spoil heaps and ruined dressing floors.

National Trust beach and car park (free to members); lifeguards May to September; dogs banned 10am–6pm in July and August. The beach café sells “hedgehog” ice creams. Wheal Coates is on the cliff path to St Agnes. TR5 0NT.

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A plain stone bench set on paving in the dunes — The Winston Graham memorial seat above Perranporth, April 2010. Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0

Flat Rocks, Perranporth

Where it began:
a seat in the dunes.

Winston Graham moved to Perranporth at seventeen, and spent much of his life there. His plaque at Flat Rocks says he wrote Demelza in his chalet, “Lech Carrygy”, here.

Ross Poldark came out in 1945; eleven more followed, the last, Bella Poldark, in 2002. The first books run from 1783 to 1787; Nampara and Wheal Leisure are invented, Truro is real.

The 1970s BBC series was so popular that vicars moved or cancelled church services rather than hold them while Poldark was on.

A memorial seat in the dunes above the beach. Park long-stay at the Wheal Leisure car park; the Perranzabuloe Museum is just off the high street.

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Aidan Turner, who played Ross Poldark from 2015 to 2019, in a publicity portrait by Kenny Ho. Kenny Ho · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aidan TurnerRoss Poldark, 2015–2019
Eleanor Tomlinson, Demelza, at the British Independent Film Awards, London, December 2014. Ibsan73 · CC BY 2.0
Eleanor TomlinsonDemelza, 2015–2019
Angharad Rees, Demelza in the first Poldark, in PBS publicity, 1977. PBS · Public domain
Angharad ReesDemelza, 1975–1977
The Poldark film set at West Wheal Owles, near Botallack, June 2014. Rod Allday · CC BY-SA 2.0
The set, 2014Built on the cliffs for the new series

Where it is now

15 places you can visit. The farmhouse that plays Nampara is a private home, so it is named here and not pinned.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. National Trust, open at any time from the coast path. Park by the Count House, where there is a café (not National Trust) and visitor information. A path goes down to the Crowns, but only the higher engine house can be explored: landslips make the lower one unsafe. TR19 7QQ.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. National Trust. After storm damage, open only for pre-booked guided tours on Mondays and Tuesdays; a tour takes about an hour and a half, and the Man Engine tunnel has a curved staircase with no handrail. Adults £14, children £7, family £35. Book ahead: walk-ups are not guaranteed. TR19 7SX.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A small cove with a slipway. The sand shows only at low tide; at high tide you can swim from the slipway. The Minack Theatre is a mile east. TR19 6JW.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. RNLI lifeguards from mid-May to the last weekend of September. The coast path runs behind the beach, west to Porthgwarra. TR19 6JX.

The Crowns engine houses at Botallack, June 2011. Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 3.0
Botallack, near St Just, the Tin Coast
Botallack and the Crowns
The mines at Botallack play Wheal Leisure (really West Wheal Owles), Grambler (Wheal Crowns) and Wheal Grace.
National Trust, open at any time from the coast path. Park by the Count House, where there is a café (not National Trust) and visitor information. A path goes down to the Crowns, but only the higher engine house can be explored: landslips make the lower one unsafe. TR19 7QQ.
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Levant: the winding engine house, pump engine house and headgear, July 2026. ArildV · CC BY-SA 4.0
Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just
Levant Mine and Beam Engine
Levant’s buildings play Tressiders Rolling Mill.
National Trust. After storm damage, open only for pre-booked guided tours on Mondays and Tuesdays; a tour takes about an hour and a half, and the Man Engine tunnel has a curved staircase with no handrail. Adults £14, children £7, family £35. Book ahead: walk-ups are not guaranteed. TR19 7SX.
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New Year’s Day swimmers at Porthgwarra, 2015. Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
St Levan, near Land’s End
Porthgwarra
Series one’s famous scene of Ross swimming while Demelza watches from the clifftops was filmed here, and so was the pilchard fishing scene.
A small cove with a slipway. The sand shows only at low tide; at high tide you can swim from the slipway. The Minack Theatre is a mile east. TR19 6JW.
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Porthcurno beach in October 2018. Geertivp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Porthcurno, near Land’s End
Porthcurno
Porthcurno was chosen to play Nampara Cove in series one.
RNLI lifeguards from mid-May to the last weekend of September. The coast path runs behind the beach, west to Porthgwarra. TR19 6JX.
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Stay

Sleep by the harbour, or by the mines.

A pub with rooms on Charlestown’s Georgian harbour, and an inn on the Tin Coast.

St Austell Brewery

Pier House, Charlestown

Charlestown, PL25 3NJ

A pub with fifteen rooms on Charlestown’s Georgian harbour, the Truro and Falmouth of the series, with a sea-facing bar. Pictured: the inner harbour.

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The Gurnard’s Head

Zennor, the Tin Coast

A dining pub with rooms on the Atlantic coast between St Ives and St Just, open all year: a base for the Tin Coast, the Crowns and Levant. Pictured: the Crowns at Botallack.

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Go there

Tours and the engine.

Levant in steam, a Poldark guide from Perranporth with the door of Nampara, and a driver-guide day.

National Trust

Levant: the beam engine tour

Pendeen, near St Just · Adults £14 · children £7 · family £35

A guided tour of the engine in steam, the skip shaft, the Man Engine tunnel and the winder house, about an hour and a half. After storm damage, tours run on Mondays and Tuesdays only, pre-booked.

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Poldark’s Cornwall

Poldark’s Cornwall tours

From Perranporth and across Cornwall

Karen Colam’s guided tours from Perranporth: West Cornwall, the Lizard, and the north coast with access to the private house that plays Nampara. Quotes and dates on request.

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Poldark Locations Tour with a driver-guide

Pick-up in central Cornwall · £650 per car, one to five people

Eight hours in a private car with a Cornish driver-guide: Bodmin Moor, Charlestown, Botallack and the Tin Coast, Levant, Porthgwarra and Holywell Bay. Daily at 9am by arrangement, except 24 December to 1 January.

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Anne Dudley’s score for the first series.

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Poldark: The Ultimate Collection

Anne Dudley · 3 × CD, 2019

Music from all five series.

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15 of 15 places · 21 of 21 Moments

Botallack and the Crowns
Botallack, near St Just, the Tin Coast
- Wheal Leisure
  West Wheal Owles plays Wheal Leisure, Ross’s mine.
- Grambler
  The Crowns play Grambler, the Poldark family mine.
- Wheal Grace
  Botallack also plays Wheal Grace.
Levant Mine and Beam Engine
Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just
- Tressiders Rolling Mill
  Levant plays Tressiders Rolling Mill, where Ross and Francis argue.
Porthgwarra
St Levan, near Land’s End
- The swim
  Ross swims in the cove while Demelza watches from the clifftop.
- The pilchards
  The pilchard fishing scene is filmed at Porthgwarra.
- The boat tunnel
  Mark Daniels escapes through the tunnel where Ross keeps his boat.
Porthcurno
Porthcurno, near Land’s End
- Nampara Cove
  Porthcurno plays Nampara Cove.
- The dream
  Demelza and Ross walk along the beach in a dream.
Kynance Cove
The Lizard, near Helston
- The road to Truro jail
  Ross is marched towards Truro jail by the officers who arrested him.
Gunwalloe Church Cove
Gunwalloe, the Lizard
- The wreck
  The night-time wrecking scenes are filmed at Church Cove.
Charlestown
Charlestown, near St Austell
- Truro and Falmouth
  Charlestown plays the ports of Truro and Falmouth, and Blamey sails from its inner harbour.
- St Mary’s, Scilly
  Ross meets the exiled Mark Daniels on St Mary’s.
St Agnes Head
St Agnes, north coast
- Nampara Valley
  St Agnes Head plays Nampara Valley, and the cliff-hanger of two series.
Chapel Porth and Wheal Coates
Chapel Porth, St Agnes
- The gallops
  Ross gallops along the clifftops above Chapel Porth.
Holywell Bay
Holywell, near Newquay
- The Warleggans’ beach
  Holywell is the Warleggans’ coast, and the course for Dwight and Caroline’s races.
Perranporth: Winston Graham’s seat
Flat Rocks, Perranporth
- Demelza is written
  Winston Graham writes Demelza in his chalet above the beach.
Minions, Bodmin Moor
Minions, Bodmin Moor
- Ross meets Demelza
  Ross meets Demelza on the moor just north-west of Minions.
St Breward
St Breward, western Bodmin Moor
- Nampara
  A farmhouse near St Breward is the outside of Nampara, Ross’s home.
Corsham High Street
Corsham, Wiltshire
- Truro’s streets
  Corsham High Street becomes 18th-century Truro.
Great Chalfield Manor
Near Melksham, Wiltshire
- Killewarren
  Great Chalfield Manor is Killewarren, Caroline and Dwight’s home.

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