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Kenneggy & Greenberry Downs
...Cornwall produced something like eighty per cent of Britain's copper and was said to be the world's most important copper-mining region. However, new mines being constructed in North and Sou...
Talland Bay & the Giant's Hedge from Looe Station
...Cornwall Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve, and can be visited on special tours which rum most days during the summer - see their website for details In the car park turn left onto the South West Co...
The Gannel from Newquay Station
...Cornwall's larger curlew flocks – as many as 500 birds – feed in the fields during the day and fly down at dusk to roost on the Gannel. In the upper estuary, sometimes herons can be seen, or even...
Falmouth Docks Station - St Just in Roseland
...Cornwall’s most picturesque locations, the coastal village of St Mawes and the beautiful exotic churchyard of St Just in Roseland. The outward leg skirts the water’s edge of the estuary of the River F...
Cligga Head
...Cornwall's busiest mining areas. In summer this is a riot of colour, with blazing gorse bushes and banks of vivid heather, wildflowers dotted between them and the mineral-stained cliffs startling...
Crantock & Penpol Creek
...Cornwall's most famous saint. Here in Crantock, the saint was Carantoc, who is said to have arrived on an altar in the sixth century. Like St Piran, he built an oratory, a simple chapel near a we...
Sennen Cove & Land's End
...Cornwall and the Brisons. Sennen Cove still has a small fishing fleet and a few pleasure boats, but it does not offer anchorage to sailors from elsewhere, because of the dangers posed by the frequent...
Wembury & Heybrook Bay
...Cornwall, and was first lit in 1844. It was originally planned to put a lighthouse on the eastern arm as well, but a beacon was erected instead the following year. The Breakwater Fort, (which is not a...
Woodhuish and Mansands
...Cornwall coast, instigated the practice of giving the victims of shipwrecks a decent Christian burial, but before this, their bodies were either left on the shoreline or buried somewhere just above it...
Port Quin & Pine Haven
...Cornwall. Port Quin was one of the locations used for the filming of the 'Poldark' TV series, first screened in 1975 and based on a series of novels by Cornishman Winston Graham. Doyden Cast...
Rocky Valley
...Cornwall's patron saint of tin miners (see the Holywell St Piran Walk) is said to have fallen to his death here, at the ripe old age of 200 years old, after a drinking session with his pal St Nec...
Maer Cliff
...Cornwall Wildlife Trust acquired it in 1983 and now manage it as an ornithological site. The Trust introduced an artificial sluice to cause permanent flooding, instead of just winter pools, creating i...
Sandymouth & Coombe Valley
...Cornwall were shunted into France, the rocks were then subjected to the pounding of the waves in millions of years of winter storms, resulting in the chaos below the cliffs today. In summer the mariti...
Shipload Bay
...Cornwall. Later, radiometric dating proved that it was much younger than these rocks, which are from the Carboniferous period, between 362 and 290 million years ago. The rock on Lundy dates from about...
Perranuthnoe Circular from Marazion seafront
...Cornwall after Henry III granted royal permission for markets and fairs to be held here from 1257 (see the Perranuthnoe From Marazion Walk). Carry on past the King's Arms and on along the Market...
Kynance Cove & Lizard Village
...Cornwall. Other visitors followed the Queen's example and Kynance Cove became a very popular tourist destination. Among the Victorian visitors was 'Water Babies' author Charles Kingsley...
Tintagel King Arthur Walk
...Cornwall built Tintagel Castle in the thirteenth century, but archaeologists excavating on the island in the 1930s found traces of a Romano British settlement dating from around the fifth or sixth cen...
Reisinformatie
...Cornwall. Neem de bus, of loop, naar Newquay, en vandaar zijn er bussen en treinen naar de steden en dorpen verder langs de kust, in beide richtingen.  Per Veerboot Er zijn twee steden van waar je p...
Reiseinformationen
...Cornwall entfernt. Mit dem Bus oder zu Fuß nach Newquay und mit dem Bus oder Zug weiter zu vielen Orten an der Küste. Mit der Fähre Die zwei wichtigsten Häfen mit Verbindungen zum europäischen Festla...
Volunteer
...Cornwall) to act as walk leaders and points of contacts in introducing people to the Coast Path and help to engage people in being more confident in exploring it.   As a volunteer, you will receive fu...

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