It is no exaggeration to say that the history and development of Perranporth have been quite unusually dominated by sand. Perranporth today has become a popular holiday resort thanks to its three-mile stretch of golden beach, but the effects have not always been so positive. In the extensive dune system just inland, two ancient religious sites have been lost to the encroaching sands.

The old oratory of St Piran, an important early Celtic monastery which became one of the foremost places of pilgrimage in mediaeval Cornwall (the shrine contained the relics of St Piran along with the teeth of St Brendan and St Martin), became overwhelmed by sand sometime before 1500.

Following its excavation in the last century, it had to be reburied in 1981 to protect the structure and the site is now marked by a memorial stone. Nearby are the ruined walls of the Norman parish church (built c. 1150) which in turn had to be abandoned to the sand in 1804. Beside it is a fine cross which may be the one recorded as a boundary point in a tenth-century charter.

The Rotary Club of Perranzabuloe was chartered on the 9th of October 1972 and our normal club meeting night - Wednesday's 18:00 for 18:15 GMT.

Our Rotary Club covers the areas of  Perranporth and St Agnes on the North Cornish Coast in the United Kingdom, Cornwall offers some of the finest coastline in the world and steeped in history - wrecking, tin mining, folklore to name but a few.  We welcome visitors from Rotary Clubs the world over, just e-mail us and we look forward to entertaining you at District 1290's premier Rotary Club.  During 1996 we hosted the world's first 24 hour Rotary Meeting, and in our 30th Anniversary Year we topped it   with a 30 hour meeting.