Places to visit with our clients around St Austell, Par and Fowey
At Home Instead we love taking clients out if they wish to and these are some our favourite places
At Home Instead Mid Cornwall, we love taking people out and about to visit gardens or beaches, just for a drive in the countryside, a cup of tea and a cake or to see friends. One of the benefits of continuing to live at home is being able to do these things. Staying as active as possible is so important for our health and enjoyment of life. Just because a person is living with frailty, dementia or other condition doesn’t mean they have to stop enjoying life.
As well as being enjoyable there are great health benefits from going out. Getting up out of a chair, moving around and travelling, seeing new people and new things all have great physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages but especially as we get older.
We asked our Care Professionals for some of their favourite places to go with the people we are privileged to look after around St Austell Bay and Lostwithiel.
Cream Teas with a View
For a cream tea, Cathy recommends Trenython Manor with it’s beautiful views across St Austell bay. In Fowey she goes to Fowey Hall with it’s spectacular views across Fowey Harbour. Fowey Hall was the inspiration for Toad Hall in the classic children’s book The Wind In the Willows as the author Kenneth Grahame regularly visited there. The Cornwall Hotel just outside St Austell is excellent for cream tea too with an Elegant Laura Ashley decorated Tea Room with views across the parkland.
All have good parking and level access so people with restricted mobility should be fine to access. if you are taking someone and are worried about access it is worth visiting first to check.
Coffee and Cake Around St Austell Bay
Tevithithick &Trays Cafe – Located in London Apprentice just off the main road to Mevagissey running from St Austell. Delicious coffee and we love their home made cakes. They have a great selection of other drinks and food with free parking and seating inside and out. Dogs are welcome in the outside area. There is lovely Farm Shop here too offering local high quality products so a great place for picking up gifts for any visiting relatives.
Open Monday – Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Sunday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Trevithick and Trays Cafe
The Pier House – Lovely Pub In Charlestown with great views over the harbour and St Austell Bay. Plenty of seating inside and out and a lovely place to go for a coffee. Access into the recently refurbished pub is good but parking can be some distance away so if you are with someone who finds it difficult to walk you may need to drop them off. This is a great place for lunch or dinner as well and worth booking for these as it can get busy, especially in the peak summer months. For film fans, this was the pub where Donald Sutherland was thrown through the window in The Eagle has Landed and the channel island scenes were filmed here.
AJ’s Cafe & Bar – A cosy, welcoming dog friendly cafe offering sandwiches and cakes throughout the day. Always busy but with space to find a table and has an outside area too which is covered for our lovely cornish weather. It has live sport over three large screens and a licensed bar. In the day it’s a great place to take someone for a light lunch or coffee, tea and cakes or pastries. In the evening they often have live entertainment and serve pizzas.
Haverners Fowey – Harbourside pub in Fowey with spectacular views in the heart of this lovely, medieval town. The food and drink here is great. It is a restaurant rather than a café but you can have light bites and a coffee or tea as well. Access can be a bit difficult in the summer when Town Quay car park is closed but should be fine in the winter. Always excellent service. Plenty of sheltered seating outside and it is dog friendly.
Garden Centres with Tea Rooms
St Austell Garden Centre – Lovely garden centre with Tea rooms at Boscundle on Holmbush Road. Wide variety of seasonal plants for indoors and outdoors. There is a discount for older people as well every Wednesday. Let them know you are over 60 at the till and you should get 10% off! This applies to their Tea Rooms as well. Here there are a wide variety of cakes and sandwiches ans a dog friendly outside seating area.
St Austell Garden Centre with Tea Rooms
Par Garden Centre – Just down the road from our office, this is a traditional garden centre specialising in plants, customer service and The Gardeners Kitchen – a fantastic cafe using local produce to provide delicious home cooked food. They have breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea with hot food from 9 am to 3.30 pm. Dogs are welcome. The shop has plenty of gift ideas and garden items and pet products.
Par Garden Centre with The Gardners Kitchen
Duchy Nursery – Just outside Lostwithiel the Duchy Nursery has a lovely cafe serving beautiful food including delicious cakes. There is a shop here too and it is a working nursery with a superb range of indoor and outdoor plants. For a cream tea, you can book ahead for the Orangery. There is parking right next to the Nursery so access shouldn’t be a problem.
