Look at a local sign post and you will find that many of Cornwall's other main towns seem to be equidistant from Wadebridge. Perhaps this is why some of the County's biggest events have their home here. The Royal Cornwall Show, The Cornwall Folk Festival and one of county's leading old farmer's markets, now staged at The Royal Cornwall Showground. Wadebridge is a foster to innovation and creation which is reflected in the names of local streets as in - Goldsworthy Way; Eddystone Road, the granite for that famous light house was shipped from the town's quay's.
It takes ingenuity to make things work. When the new Piazza was built the developers, like the new aqueduct builders, had to go deep underground to build the foundations.
It takes courage to develop a traditional market town into the future.
Historically Wadebridge was the place with a crossing which became a Bridge - built on piles of wool they say. It now has two newer ones. One allows the town to be by-passed, the other makes walking easier from Egloshayle into the main town. When the by-pass - aqueduct - was built they had problems finding a bottom to the river. The 2nd new bridge is called "Anneka's Bridge" after the name of the presenter of TV series which got it built.
The town is a central point for access to the Camel Trail with a choice of heading seawards towards Padstow or inland towards Bodmin and then further up onto Bodmin Moor. Wadebridge is a place created by history and the river. The half way point between two extremely different areas of Cornwall.
