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Prussia Cove

Name: Prussia Cove
Address: South West Coast Path, Prussia Cove, England, GB

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June 20, 2022

A lack of facilities make Prussia Cove a tranquil spot even at the height of summer, so if you can live without a beach cafe and loos, this is the one for you. The cove was home to one of Cornwall's most famous smugglers. In the 18th Century, John Carter, known as 'The King of Prussia', used the caves here to stash his smuggled goods. Parking is limited so it's best to get there early during summer. A great spot for snorkelling, the water is crystal clear here. Dogs are allowed year round.

Samuel

August 7, 2021

About 45 minute drive away. But a truly lovely walk along the SW coast path brings you to this old smuggles cove.

Emily

July 27, 2021

Prussia cove is a beautifull spot to visit, for a nice walk with the family and it`s lovely clear water makes it a great place for a dip!. Prussia Cove owes its romantic name to a former resident, John Carter, one of England’s most successful and notorious smugglers in the later 18th Century. As a boy playing soldiers with his brothers Francis, Harry and Charles, he would play the heroic contemporary Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. It seems John Carter was equally charismatic and his nickname rechristened the cove, or rather the area in which he operated, since no one cove is actually called Prussia’s Cove. Such was the scale of operations that The Coastguard Cottages were built in about 1825 in an attempt to stamp out all the smuggling. Since then, The Haven and Sea View were built and of course Porth-en-Alls house and The Lodge, but otherwise the place has hardly changed and the Carters would recognise Cliff Cottage, Willy’s Cottage and the extremely rare fisherman’s huts above the slipway at Bessy’s Cove, although there are no brown signs to tell you so. This lack of change is perhaps what makes Prussia Cove so celebrated, although it also derives fame from, the WWI 33,000 ton cruiser class battleship HMS WARSPITE, which ran aground in a gale on 27th April 1947 and remained on the rocks here for four years. The International Musician’s Seminar (IMS) which takes nearly every house over the Easter holidays and most of September was established here in 1972. Ladies in Lavender directed by Charles Dance and starring Maggie Smith, Judie Dench and Natascha Macelhone among many others was located here anonymously(!) in 2001. Its natural history is notable for the very rare stone (x not granite) that makes up the two Cudden Points, although the coves are slaty sedimentary killas, formed south of the equator x million years ago. Also rare is the occurrence of so much wild cabbage, exclusive to Prussia Cove and well known to botanists who have made a study of its unusual qualities. As an estate, the place was a collection of many individual interests and parcels until gradually knitted together from about 1880 onwards.