Paddleboarding spots in Cornwall

Siblyback Lake is a reservoir on the edge of Bodmin Moor near St Cleer, built in 1968 across a tributary of the River Fowey and managed by South West Lakes Trust, which runs a watersports centre on site. OSM marks this slipway's access as permissive rather than public right of access.

St. Austell Bay put-in (Charlestown)

Charlestown is a small Georgian-era harbour on St Austell Bay in south Cornwall, built between 1791 and 1799 by Charles Rashleigh to a design by John Smeaton. This slipway sits at Charlestown Dock, which has been privately operated by the tall-ship company Square Sail since 1994 and is entered through tidal gates that only open around high water.

Porthpean slipway

Porthpean is a small beach on St Austell Bay, about a kilometre south of Charlestown. This slipway carries a public footpath designation and forms part of the South West Coast Path's Mevagissey-to-Par section.

St Anthony slipway (Gillan Creek)

This slipway sits on Gillan Creek at St Anthony-in-Meneage, a hamlet on a peninsula between the creek and the Helford River. OpenStreetMap records the slipway as fee-paying.

Trevaunance Cove slipway

Trevaunance Cove is the small sandy beach and former harbour of St Agnes on Cornwall's north coast. A harbour built here in 1798 exported copper ore until its wall collapsed in a storm in 1915-16, and the cove is now a lifeguarded beach designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its exposed mineral-bearing rock.

Coverack Harbour slipway

This slipway is at Coverack Harbour on the eastern side of the Lizard peninsula, a working fishing harbour that housed an RNLI lifeboat station from 1901 to 1978. OpenStreetMap records access to the slipway as permissive.

Gillan Creek slipway (private)

This private slipway launches onto Gillan Creek near the hamlet of Gillan, close to where the creek opens into the sea near Nare Point on the Helford River's eastern shore. OpenStreetMap records access here as private.

Lower Kelly slipway, Calstock

This slipway is at Lower Kelly, just south of Calstock village, on the tidal River Tamar within the Tamar Valley National Landscape.

Calstock slipway

This slipway is on Commercial Road in Calstock, on the tidal River Tamar below the village's Victorian railway viaduct. Calstock was a working quay for market-garden and mineral traffic in the 19th century, and a seasonal passenger ferry now links Cotehele Quay with the village.

Sennen Cove RNLI slipway

This is the RNLI Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station's own slipway at the southern end of Whitesand Bay near Land's End, used to launch the station's lifeboats. It is tagged as a private trackway rather than a public launch point.

Sammy Sands

Sammy Sands is a small tidal beach on the River Tamar at Cargreen, within the Tamar Valley National Landscape. The tidal Tamar's low-water channel here also marks the Devon-Cornwall county boundary, with Devon on the opposite bank.

Saltash put-in

This slipway sits on Old Ferry Road at Waterside in Saltash, a few hundred metres from Jubilee Green Slipway on the same stretch of the tidal River Tamar below the Tamar and Royal Albert bridges. The King's Harbour Master for Plymouth controls navigation on this reach down to Plymouth Sound.

Ince Castle slipway

This slipway is named Ince Castle after the nearby 17th-century manor house on a peninsula in the River Lynher. It sits close to the hamlet of Clift in Antony parish, near the Lynher's junction with the Tamar, rather than at Saltash itself, and the estuary is part of the Tamar Estuaries Complex Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Roscarrock put-in (Port Isaac)

This slipway sits on the sea at Port Isaac harbour on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, at the foot of Roscarrock Hill, the road historically linked to the village's shipbuilding trade.

St Just Creek slipway (St Just in Roseland)

This slipway launches onto Saint Just Creek, a tidal inlet of Carrick Roads beside St Just in Roseland's church. The slipway has an upward incline from the water, per OpenStreetMap tagging.

Rescassa put-in (St. Just-in-Roseland)

A put-in on St Just Pool, a tidal creek off Carrick Roads beside St Just in Roseland's 12th-century church on Cornwall's Roseland Peninsula. St Just Pool is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and a nearby boatyard offers a slipway and launching facilities, with an up-creek launch best timed to a rising tide.

Public slip

This public slipway is on Penarrow Road on the Trefusis peninsula near Mylor Churchtown, launching directly onto Carrick Roads, the broad natural harbour of the Fal Estuary, rather than onto Mylor Creek on the peninsula's other side.

Priest's Cove

Priest's Cove is a small cove on the Atlantic coast of west Cornwall, about a mile west of St Just and immediately south of Cape Cornwall. A slipway serves a small fishing fleet that still launches from the cove, and the Brisons rocks lie roughly a mile offshore.

Portreath Harbour slipway

Portreath harbour sits on Cornwall's north coast, about three miles northwest of Redruth, built in 1760 originally to serve the copper and tin trade. It is now leased to the Portreath Harbour Association by Cornwall Council, with sandy beaches either side of the harbour entrance used by surfers and a local surf lifesaving club.

Porthleven slipway

This concrete slipway is at Porthleven Harbour, which opens onto Mount's Bay on Cornwall's south coast. The harbour was built partly as a refuge for sailing ships and later housed an RNLI lifeboat station from 1894 to 1929.

Porth Farm put-in (Bohortha)

A put-in on the Percuil River shore at Place, opposite St Mawes on Cornwall's Roseland Peninsula, close to St Anthony's Church and the seasonal Place passenger ferry landing. The Percuil River is a tidal estuary running about 11 km from north of the A3078 down to Carrick Roads, and the hamlets of Bohortha and Porth Farm lie a short walk inland.

Port Gaverne Beach Slipway

Port Gaverne is a small cove and hamlet on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, just east of Port Isaac. This slipway gives access to its beach for small craft.

Boscastle Harbour slipway

Boscastle Harbour is a small natural inlet on the north Cornwall coast, enclosed by two stone harbour walls built in 1584 by Sir Richard Grenville. A tidal slipway and footpath give access to the water, the only significant harbour along about 20 miles of this stretch of coast.

St Minver Highlands slipway