John Betjeman Centre
The John Betjeman Centre is sited in the main building of the old railway station at Wadebridge.
Betjeman spent the last years of his life in Trebetherick and died there in 1984; his grave is at St Enodoc Church. After his death, a group of local friends and enthusiasts launched an appeal to restore the derelict station building as a memorial to him. There is a memorabilia room dedicated to Sir John, displaying a variety of his personal effects, academic honours and furniture.
The Poet Laureate had a lifelong love of North Cornwall ever since his first holiday in Trebetherick as a young boy.On Wadebridge station what a breath of sea
Scented the Camel valley Cornish air,
Soft Cornish rains, and silence after steam
As out of Derry's stable came the brake
To drag us up those long familiar hills,
Past haunted woods and oil lit farms and on
To far Trebetherick by the sounding sea.
On walks
- Wadebridge to Polbrock (6.8 mile walk)
Get the iWalkCornwall app
Download the app and use it to explore the walks and to purchase a guided route.
The app will direct you to the start of the walk via satnav.
The app guides you around the walk using GPS, removing any worries about getting lost.
The walk route is described with detailed, regularly-updated, hand-written directions.
Each time there is a new direction to follow, the app will beep to remind you, and will warn you if you go off-route.
A map shows the route, where you are at all times and even which way you are facing.
Each walk is packed with information about the history and nature along the route, from over a decade of research than spans more than 3,000 topics.
Once a walk is downloaded, the app doesn't need a phone or wifi signal during the walk.
The app counts down distance to the next direction and estimates time remaining based on your personal walking speed.
We keep the directions continually updated for changes to the paths/landmarks - the price for a walk includes ongoing free updates.
