Port Isaac

Port Isaac

Port Isaac ( _kw. Porthusek) is a fishing village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its nearest town is Wadebridge, 10 miles away. Port Gaverne is a hamlet that is normally considered part of Port Isaac, despite having its own individual history.

Despite its loneliness the village has had several visits from celebrities. The 1981 BBC drama serial "The Nightmare Man" was filmed in and around the village, which doubled for a Scottish island and it was a location for the film of "Oscar and Lucinda" (1997). The local village hall has been decorated by the team of "DIY SOS", and to date, three seasons of the ITV series "Doc Martin" have been filmed there although the village has a fictional name of 'Portwenn'. "Saving Grace", a successful comedy film, was filmed in and around the village.

In October 2005, the village was again used for the backdrop to the TV production of Rosamunde Pilcher's "The Shell Seekers". Filming took place in the village for a week with the productions star, Vanessa Redgrave, filming many of her scenes in the main street. the filming of the third series is currently taking place.

In recent years, the village has become home, for part of the year, to a growing number of celebrities, including the designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, actress Julie Peasgood and presenter Lorne Spicer.

The village is also home to the sea shanty singers, "the Fisherman's Friends", performing every Friday evening in summer from "8-ish" on The Platt in the old harbour. The singers are made up of local residents, including the postmaster and author of the Gully books, Jon Cleave, and the crab and lobstermen of the village. The Fishermen's Friends have performed all over the UK including the Royal Albert Hall and have appeared on the popular TV quiz show "Eggheads". The Master of Ceremonies is usually either Jon Cleave or Jeremy Brown.

The village has an RNLI lifeboat station with a class D inshore lifeboat.

External links

* [http://www.coastlineuncut.com/mini.php?locid=288&newsearch=true Port Isaac Video]
* [http://www.thisisnorthcornwall.com/port_isaac.html About Port Isaac]
* [http://www.strollingguides.co.uk/books/cornwall/places/portisaac.php Description and Photographs]
* [http://www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/southwest/stations/PortIsaacCornwall Information on lifeboat station]
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='port%20isaac') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Port Isaac]
* [http://www.marhamchurch.eu/Cornwall_picture_6.htm Photographs of Port Isaac at Marhamchurch.eu]
* [http://thegullery.co.uk The Gullery - home of the Gully childrens' books]
* [http://www.portisaacguide.com/pages/events.html Events in Port Isaac]


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