Management Plan. The village has around 90 listed buildings (all Grade II). Lifeboat The Port Isaac lifeboat station was established in 1869 following the delivery of the Richard and Sarah. The former boathouse building was until recently the Post Office but is now a gift shop. In the early 1960s the Royal National Lifeboat Institution introduced the Inshore Lifeboat, and in 1987 the Port Isaac Station reopened with a new class D inshore lifeboat. Since that time, the lifeboat has responded to more than 623 calls, saving more than 333 lives. Today, Port Isaac's crew and shore helpers man the station 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing full coverage of part of the north coast of Cornwall. In 2009, a new D class inshore lifeboat called Copeland Bell (D707) commenced service. In July 2012, the crew of the lifeboat received RNLI medals for gallantry following a dangerous rescue. This was only the second time in RNLI history that the entire crew of a D class, inflatable, lifeboat have received gallantry medals. It was the first time a silver medal had been awarded to a member of a Port Isaac crew since 1870. Transport The first link from Port Isaac to the railways was started by John Prout who ran a service to Bodmin Road station, more than distant, from 1861. The railways came much closer when the North Cornwall Railway opened the section from Delabole to Wadebridge in 1895, which included a station at Port Isaac Road from the town. Produce from the area including fish, flowers and fruit were transported through the steep and narrow lanes to the station, with 150 tons of fish being transported by cart for onward shipment in 1897. The horse-drawn connection to the railway was replaced by a motor bus in 1920 and when this service was taken over by the Southern National Omnibus Company in 1930, Prouts merged the passenger service into the freight cartage service that they ran for the Southern Railway. The Okehampton to Wadebridge railway line closed in 1966. Due to the sparsely populated area, ticket sales were always low:4,500 annually in 1928, dropping to less than 2,000 in 1936; freight dropped in a similar way over the same period. The village was served by Western Greyhound's 584 bus service from Wadebridge to Camelford which ran five times daily in each direction, except for Sundays. A summer