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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|map_type = Cornwall
|coordinates = {{coord|50.5604|-4.9491|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Hawker's Cove
|cornish_name=
|static_image = Coastguard Station at Hawker's Cove, Cornwall (geograph 29654).jpg
|static_image_width = 240px
|static_image_caption = Hawker's Cove at low water
|population =
|population_ref =
|civil_parish= Padstow
|unitary_england= [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[Cornwall]]
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= [[North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)|North Cornwall]]
|post_town= PADSTOW
|postcode_district = PL28
|postcode_area= PL
|dial_code= 01841
|os_grid_reference= SW912776
}}

'''Hawker's Cove''' is a small coastal settlement in north [[Cornwall]], England. It is situated one-and-a-half miles (2 kilometres) north of [[Padstow]] on the west side of the [[River Camel|River Camel estuary]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}}</ref>

The hamlet consists of two terraces of cottages, a few detached dwellings, a coastguard station and a boathouse with a [[slipway]] which once housed the [[Padstow lifeboat]]. The actor [[Edward Woodward]] lived there until his death in 2009. The first lifeboat, built by the Padstow Harbour Association, was kept at Hawker's Cove and in 1855 the Padstow branch of the [[RNLI]] was formed. A new boathouse with a roller slipway was built in 1931. By the 1960s, [[silting]] was becoming a problem and in October 1967 the Padstow lifeboat relocated to a new boathouse and slipway at [[Trevose Head]], a few miles to the west.
Facilities at Hawkers Cove are limited, although there is now a (tiny) tea garden at the back of the two-hundred-year-old ‘Coastguard Houses’, approximately 150m from the slipway at the beach.

Evidence has been found of occupation during the [[Bronze Age]], [[Iron Age]] and [[Roman Britain|Roman]] periods, and the use of Harbour Cove for trading vessels.<ref name="time team">{{cite episode | title = From Constantinople to Cornwall | url = http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2008/padstow/index.html | series = Time Team | airdate = 2008-03-09 | season = 2008 | number = 10}}</ref>

Road access to Hawker's Cove is via a lane which leads from the Padstow-[[St Merryn]] road through [[Crugmeer]] to [[Lellizzick]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> As traffic is discouraged beyond Lellizzick, motorists are directed to a nearby carpark from where a track leads to the coastpath at [[Tregirls beach]].

==Geography==
Between Padstow and Hawker's Cove the [[South West Coast Path]] passes Gun Point, site of an abandoned gun emplacement and fortifications dating back to the [[Napoleonic Wars|Napoleonic War]]. This stretch of path has fairly easy gradients and is well-surfaced, but beyond Hawker's Cove it steepens on the climb up to [[Stepper Point]]. There are no toilets or other public facilities nearby.

The [[Tide|ebb tide]] uncovers a wide sandy beach which, at low water, extends across the estuary mouth towards [[Trebetherick|Trebetherick Point]]. But at high water, the beach is submerged and the [[sand bank]] is the notorious [[Doom Bar]] which presents a hazard to shipping.

==References==
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