Fascinating Bodmin is ideal for a great family holiday, short break or a day visit. It is North Cornwall's largest and most flourishing town and Cornwall's Capital. It is a town that thrives on its past but also provides today's visitors with an interesting and varied experience.

Within easy walking distance of Bodmin's centre, Mount Folly, there seven fascinating attractions - the Shire Hall, Courtroom Experience; Bodmin and Wenford Railway. The DCLI Military Museum; Town Museum; Bodmin Jail, the largest parish church in Cornwall, St Petroc's and the Camel Trail.

So a stay in, or visit to Bodmin means you can leave the car behind on your days out. Winding out of Bodmin there are walking and cycling trails leading to the South Coast,taking in Lanhydrock, Lostwithiel, Fowey and, what has been described as the 'eighth wonder of the world' - the famous Eden Project.

Head north and you are on the famous Camel Trail- 18 miles of traffic-free walking,cycling and horse riding along the River Camel - where you can make for the edge of enigmatic Bodmin Moor or coastwards, along the lovely Camel Estuary to the market town of Wadebridge and the charming harbour at Padstow.

Within a two miles radius of the town you can take a day out and discover the grand Georgian Houses of Pencarrow and Lanhydrock,- both set in lush gardens and woods as good as any you will see, visit the famous Camel Valley Vineyard and taste the award-winning wines; or just wander through the beautiful Cardinham Woods.