These colourful fishing boats are pictured on the Looe River, with East Looe in the background. A well-known fishing port and tourist attraction, fish landed at Looe will have been caught that very same day.

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Pictured on a late winter's afternoon, East Looe dates from early medieval times. With more modern houses on the sloping hillside above, the town has a number of ancient buildings. It is an important fishing port and tourist destination.

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The charming streets of East Looe are a mix of ancient buildings and ones dating from perhaps Victorian times. More modern housing is on the hillside above the town. It is a major tourist attraction as well as being an important fishing port.

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The new lifeboat station at Looe in south-east Cornwall has a rigid inflatable inshore lifeboat.

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Here's one from the archives to remind me of wonderful times in Cornwall.

At high tide at the end of the day the fishing boats return to Looe in south-east Cornwall to offload their catch at the fish market on the side of the harbour. All the fishing boats at Looe are day boats, which means that the fish is the freshest possible. The fish market is a favourite of Rick Stein.

Looe is a beautiful little fishing town - or more properly two towns, East Looe and West Looe - on the south-east coast of Cornwall. It was the first place in Cornwall that I came to on holiday as a young child, and now I have a holiday home just outside the town.

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