Cornwall's 'best places to live' including one 'returning to glory days' - full list

Top 10 places to unrecorded successful Cornwall successful 2025 person ben revealed. (Image: Getty)

The apical 10 champion towns successful Cornwall to unrecorded successful person been revealed, with 1 spot making a comeback: historically dubbed "Brighton of the West."

Each year, manner website Muddy Stilettos, successful relation with Knight Frank, provides a database of its apical 300 places to reside successful the UK. Editors handpick quaint villages and municipality towns crossed the country.

2025 brings a caller fresh database of options for keen movers, with Cornwall featuring its renewed champion options.

The apical and possibly astir astonishing connected the database is Bude. Situated connected the northbound seashore of Cornwall, the municipality was the county’s archetypal due tourer destination. It was erstwhile named "Brighton of the West" until the railway enactment closed successful the 1960s. 

However, Bude is present making a mega comeback, returning to its erstwhile glory. The tiny seaside municipality has a section and affable feel, and beauteous beaches are wrong walking region of the municipality centre.

Cornwall boasts implicit 400-miles of coastline. (Image: Getty)

Unsurprisingly, adjacent connected the database is Carbis Bay. Muddy Stilettos says the colony has inspired galore artists and authors for years past owed to its breathtaking oversea views. Only one-mile southeast of the iconic St Ives, the picturesque destination is located towards the confederate extremity of Cornwall.

Next up are the duplicate villages of Cawsand and Kingsand. In the quieter country of Cornwall, a ferry connects the 2 to Plymouth, allowing casual entree to the neighbouring county. The villages person retained their earthy quality with ample countryside and seaside walks.

Falmouth and Fowey are the 2 beauteous places adjacent connected the list. Both towns are connected Cornwall’s southbound seashore with iconic harbours cleanable for yachties.

Although Falmouth has a somewhat larger and much municipality consciousness owed to its celebrated originative university, some person laid-back atmospheres, attracting artists from each implicit the country. 

Bude listed arsenic 'making a comeback' successful apical places to unrecorded successful 2025. (Image: Getty)

At the precise extremity of the county, you tin find Penzance. Listed owed to its “bustling quirky harbourside town”, it offers a much affordable enactment for those seeking seaside living.

Similarly, Porthleven was listed arsenic a sportfishing colony with plentifulness going connected each twelvemonth round, though due to the fact that of its location, it is somewhat much sought-after than Penzance.  

Portscatho & Gerrans successful Roseland and St Agnes are 2 villages with a local, family-friendly feel. The 2 Roseland villages connection much agrarian surviving options, whereas ‘Aggie’, arsenic the locals telephone it, offers a spot to find fantabulous surf spots. According to the manner website, some boast a large “community vibe.” 

Last but not slightest is Wadebridge. This aged marketplace municipality is connected the much affordable extremity of the standard with a agelong precocious thoroughfare of shops and properties.

Bude

Carbis Bay

Cawsand and Kingsand

Falmouth

Fowey

Penzance

Porthleven

Portscatho & Gerrans, Roseland

St Agnes

Wadebridge