At Pentire Point at speculative builder offered lots for development in the 1930s. Following public subscription the land was purchased and then presented to the National Trust in 1936. More acquisitions followed so that now the Trust owns all the land to Portquin.

The stretch of coast from Pentire Point to Polzeath was well known to John Betjeman, the Late Poet Laureate, who died in 1984. He came to Trebetherick many times as a small boy and later his parents owned a holiday cottage in the village. He recalls in his autobiography Summoned By Bells how they would journey all day from Waterloo on the train, eventually to arrive at Wadebridge station to be met by a horse-drawn brake;

Come friends of Hygiene, Electricity
And those young twins, Free Thought and clean Fresh Air:
Attend the long express from Waterloo
That takes us down to Cornwall. Tea time shows
The small fields waiting, every blackthorn hedge
Straining inland before the south-west gale.
The emptying train, wind in the ventilators,
Puffs out of Egloskerry to Tresmeer
Through minty meadows, under bearded trees
And hills upon whose sides the clinging farms
Hold Bible Christians. Can it really be
That this same carriage came from Waterloo?
On Wadebridge station what breath of sea
Scented the Camel valley! Cornish air,
Soft Cornish rains, and silence after steam...
As out of Derry's stable came the break
To drag us up those long, familiar hills,
Past haunted woods and oil-lit farms and on
To far Trebetherick by the sounding sea.

In later years Betjeman came here annually and found great inspiration in Nature, which surrounded him.

Today, the fine beaches along this coast are great for surfing.