Local names the one beautiful seaside village in Cornwall as 'ghastly' tourist hotspot
The charming village is famously hard to pronounce but according to one resident that hasn't stopped it being flooded by visitors.
A local in Cornwall has branded one of "England's loveliest villages" blighted by overtourism and a "ghastly" place filled with seafaring chintz.
Writing in the i paper, Tanya Gold bemoaned the hordes of visitors that have transformed once seaside idylls, like St. Ive's and Mousehole in Cornwall into tourist traps.
The journalist explained she lives in the nearby town of Newyln, protected from some of the holidaymaker traffic by a buoyant fishing industry.
But writing about Mousehole, pronounced locally as "Mowzel", Ms Gold said: "The summer ends, and the fleshpots of Europe look back on a season of glut, and filth. I watched nappies in the wind on St Ives harbour this summer, like psychosis: when there are too many tourists, a town loses all balance.
"This has happened in Portofino, Barcelona, Venice, St Ives and the village of Mousehole, a ghastly portent filled with nautical-themed décor. I am in Newlyn, Mousehole’s neighbour, and we look to her with frightened eyes."
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Mousehole is a tiny village of just over 607 households perched in a delightful cove around 2.5 miles from the largest nearby town, Penzance.
The Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, who spent his honeymoon in Mousehole, once dubbed it "the loveliest village in England".
The origins of the unusual name for the once busy fishing harbour are subject to an ongoing debate, some claim it relates to a nearby sea cave which resembles the home of a giant rodent, whereas other scholars say the word comes from old Cornish relating to a maiden and a stream.
Just last month the pretty seaside location gained a less welcome moniker when some locals started referring to it as "binhole" because of the number of unsightly refuse containers left in the area due a change in council waste collection methods.
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Officials reported that over 10,000 requests have been made for the removal of old bins. Local Kim Hambletold shared with CornwallLive: ''I call our village 'binhole' now. There are bins everywhere. It's absolutely disgusting.''
Another added: ''The bin situation has turned our beautiful seaside village into an eyesore. There are lots of people who come on holiday here and no one wants to see piles of bins.
''Our streets are very narrow and there is hardly room for 1 bin, let alone an extra one.”
Local Cornwall Councillor Thalia Marrington said: "The council is aware there may be a ‘legacy’ bin issue though in this area and I’m sure once the new service has ‘bedded in’ and any teething issues have been addressed they’ll be looking at that too.
"It’s important that we are changing and collecting our food waste too though and coming in line with the rest of the country."
