Editing Polzeath (section)

==History==
In 1911 a [[Methodist]] chapel was built on the road towards Trebetherick at Chapel Corner. The original building was demolished in 1932 when the village street was widened and a new chapel was opened on 15 April 1933. Since 2006 the chapel has been called the Tubestation and is an active church with services every Sunday. The rest of the week it is a surfers cafe.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://tubestation.org/| title = Home - Tubestation}}</ref><ref name=charm>{{cite book | last = Drew | first = Alan | title = The Charm of North Cornwall | publisher = Triskele Publications | year = 1993 | location = Ticehurst | pages = 36–37 | isbn = 978-0-9520627-0-7}}</ref>

Until 1934 the main street through the village crossed the stream by means of a [[Ford (crossing)|ford]] and a footbridge was provided for pedestrians although this was sometimes washed away by winter storms. For vehicles the road surface stopped short of the ford and cars splashed through the water on a sandy area occasionally causing vehicles to become stuck in the sand. In 1934 the current road bridge was built with a low wall separating the road from the sandy beach.<ref name=charm />

During [[World War II]] the beach would, alongside other beaches in Cornwall, have barbed wire on it in preparation for a German naval invasion.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.intocornwall.com/features/war-in-cornwall.asp| title = War in Cornwall | website = intocornwall.com|accessdate = 26 July 2022}}</ref>

The [[2013–14 United Kingdom winter floods|winter storms of 2014]] changed the topography of the beach creating a sand bar up to 1m high located at approximately the high tide mark, a feature that was not previously recorded.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28758454 |title=RNLI lifeguards at Polzeath beach rescue 32 in one hour – BBC News |first= |last= |website=bbc.co.uk |year=2015|accessdate=29 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/13/lifeguards-rescue-rip-current-cornwall-beach-polzeath |title=Lifeguards rescue 32 people from rip current at Cornwall beach &#124; UK news &#124; The Guardian |first= |last=|website=theguardian.com |year=2015|accessdate=29 August 2015}}</ref> This was gradually washed away so that by 2019 the beach had returned to the even slope visible in pictures up to 2014.