Editing Polzeath (section)

==Literary associations==
[[File:ForTheFallenPlaqueCornwall.jpg|thumb|For The Fallen plaque on Pentire Head, with The Rumps in the distance]]
Polzeath was a favourite haunt of the poet laureate, [[Sir John Betjeman]], and is celebrated in some of his verse.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ourcornwall.co.uk/polzeath |title=Polzeath Cornwall |first= |last= |website=ourcornwall.co.uk |year=2015 |accessdate=30 August 2015}}</ref> Another poet, [[Laurence Binyon]], wrote the [[Remembrance Day]] ode ''[[s:For the Fallen|For the Fallen]]'' in 1914 while sitting on [[Pentire Head]], Polzeath (or "Polseath" as it was called), during [[World War I]].

In the first of [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''[[The Famous Five (novel series)|Famous Five]]'' novels, the eponymous children express disappointment that their holiday will not be spent at Polzeath as usual.<ref name=blyton>{{cite book  | last = Blyton | first = Enid | title = Five on a Treasure Island | year = 1942 | publisher = Hachette Children's |isbn = 9781844569595 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKwhHhzB7TYC&pg=PT6 }}</ref>

The cartoonist [[Posy Simmonds]] created a fictitious place in Cornwall called "Tresoddit". When the BBC made the short film ''Tresoddit for Easter'' in 1991, it was filmed in and around Polzeath.

The [[Poldark (1975 TV series)|BBC adaptation]] of [[Winston Graham|Winston Graham's]] [[Poldark]] series of books filmed some scenes at Pentireglaze. In his book ''Poldark's Cornwall'' Graham described this as "an area which could hardly have changed in a century".<ref>{{cite book | last = Graham | first = Winston | authorlink = Winston Graham | title = Poldark's Cornwall | year = 1983 | publisher = The Bodley Head Limited | location = London | isbn = 0-370-30678-3 | page = 95 }}</ref>