Greetings,
Am attempting to put together a fixed base walking tour of the Cornwall Coastal Path for me and my husband. Need to move from Padstow to St. Just. Are there any taxi services that would make this trek from Padstow to St. Just? Many thanks for any help.
There will clearly be taxi services that will transport either you and/or your bags from Padstow to St Just, but it will be at a cost and will need booking in advance.
I would recommend that you use St Ives as a base rather than St Just, which is a nice but small and very limited village. From St Ives you can walk the coastal path round to Penzance using local buses quite easily.
There are two St Justs in Cornwall - St Just in Roseland , and St Just in Penwith I assume you mean Penwith ?
You can do it by bus alone, but it's a very long journey. I would take the hourly bus from Padstow to Bodmin Parkway Station, then train to Penzance then the local bus from Penzance to St Just.
If you follow John's suggestion for St Ives, then get off the train at St Erth, and change to the branch line for St Ives.
Buy a Day Ticket for £5 for all buses in Cornwall.
It is Bus 11 from Padstow- it takes 1 hour 10 minutes to Bodmin Parkway -it's final destination.
At Penzance the Bus Station is outside the Bus Station- there are 3 routes to St Just- the 'Tin Coaster' (the fastest, hourly, takes 30 minutes, usually open top), the infrequent 8, and the hourly clockwise Lands End Coaster open top- that takes 1 3/4 hours so is very slow.
This is the current Bus Timetable Book- https://images-gocornwallbus.passenger-website.com/2023-04/TFC%20April%202023%20Guide%20April%206th%20Update.pdf
The train fare from Bodmin to either Penzance or St Ives is £12.70- just buy at the station- the journey is about 1 1/4 hours. There is a train every 30 minutes- so the whole journey is around 3 hours.
Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions. Cheers!
Hi,
St. Ives or St.. just. One is developed for tourists with car parks handling high 100s of cars each. Crowded. St. Just is market town for locals with a car park for those taking a bus to other locations. A food coop in the village center. Ives has more restaurants than RS can list in one book. St. Just...it's a market town for locals so the eating out options are limited, not nonexistent. St. Just is in the center of Poldark territory and filming. They are really two very different experiences.
Penzance is another thought. It is where busses huddle up to head places. It is connected to London by rail. It is a small city not a village.
wayneiNWI
I haven't been to St. Just. Although St. Ives is very touristy, I enjoyed the art and pottery shops there, as well as the Tate St. Ives. I'd be glad to go back.
The OP originally asked for directions to St Just. In doing so you would presume the OP has already done their homework as that is an unusual request and that St Just is where they want to be. You don't pluck St Just (either of them) out of thin air.
It wasn't asked for a comparison of St Ives, St Just, Penzance or anywhere else.
John new, the first respondent, then confused the issue by suggesting St Ives instead.
The reality is that as a base for walking the coast path any of the three are as good as each other. St Just and St Ives share the same public transport routes.
St Just benefits from being about half way round the Peninsula.
Looking at Rick's blog of 2015 St Just is not a mining town (or village) now- that has all closed, but you will see the distinctive remains of the mining industry all around the landscape.
To suggest that Penzance is a small city is over stretching definitions. It may be by US definitions of a city (there is a whole separate thread on that, where US communities of under 1,000 people can be called a city). By UK standards it is more of a small town. Some might say a large town but that is as far as it goes
isn31c - It is certainly one interpretation of the OP's post to think that they know all about St Just and just need help with the transfer. My interpretation was that maybe they are just planning a coastal walk and picked St Just from a map as it fitted their plans without knowing what the small town was like. So I provided a bit of local knowledge having visited Cornwall many times and also having walked the whole of the coastal path in Cornwall. The OP came back to thank us for our input which suggests that they found it useful
In truth either interpretation could be correct as only the OP knows. St Just could be a wonderful place to stay if the OP has found some suitable accommodation and is aware of its size and resources. On the other hand it might be that St Ives would be much more to their needs. It certainly suites me when I was walking the path there.
