The Lugger Hotel & Restaurant
Truro, Cornwall

A unique 17th Century Inn, right on the waters edge in Portloe, a Cornish fishing village of unrivalled beauty. Sunday Times best new seaside hotel of the year, Hip Hotel Guide and Mr and Mrs Smith recommended. The Lugger has been transformed following a major renovation programme. All the public rooms have been refurbished and greatly improved to offer comfort and functionality in the truly unique setting of this historic harbour. In a conservation area, at the foot of a valley with its picturesque cove and tiny harbour, Portloe is part of the beautiful Roseland Peninsula. All twenty one bedrooms have been tastefully decorated and feature luxurious en-suite bathrooms, with deluge showers and Seboni Cornish Spa essential products.

Truro (pronounced Cornish: Truru) is the only city within the county of Cornwall, it is also Cornwall's administrative centre. It is the most southerly city in the United Kingdom, situated just under 232 miles (374 kilometres) west south-west of Charing Cross, London. It has a population of 20,920. The remains at Carvossa indicate that there has been settlement in the Truro since at least Iron Age times. There was also a Norman castle on one of the hills beside Truro, now the site of the recent award-winning Courts of Justice building (by Eldred Evans and David Shalev, who also designed the Tate St Ives building). Truro rose to prominence as a market town and port during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. However with the decline of the fishing and tin mining industries, Truro's role has shifted to being the cultural and commercial capital of Cornwall. Truro's present buildings are mostly Georgian era or later, a result of its role as a stannary town during the height of the mining industry in West Cornwall.