Walk - Mevagissey to Par

Highlights

• Stocking up on refreshments in the interesting, narrow streets of Mevagissey.
• Views of undulating fields and white stretch of Pentewan Beach beyond.
• The extensive views from Black Head: a humped, windswept promontory which is the site of an Iron Age cliff castle. There is a memorial stone here to the Cornish poet A.L. Rowse.
• Walking through the woodland which runs down to Hallane Mill Beach: a good place for a picnic.
• The woodland of Ropehaven Cliffs: a Cornwall Wildlife Trust Reserve and a good place to spot nesting fulmars. According to the CWT, fossils found in the rocks here indicate that 400 million years ago Ropehaven lay beneath tropical seas.
• Emerging from the trees at Ropehaven to fantastic views of the Path twisting around the cliffs ahead.
• Charlestown: Charlestown Harbour still remains relatively untouched by development and so has been a very important film and TV location over the years. It was used in the filming of the 1976 World War II drama The Eagle Has Landed, the 1975-77 romantic drama Poldark and the 1970's series The Onedin Line. The Shipwreck Treasure Museum on Quay Road has many artefacts from shipwrecks and one of the largest underwater diving equipment collections in the country. Open from March to November from 10.00-17.00, Tel: 01726 69897.
• The National Coastwatch Station on Landrion Point.
• Exploring the dunes of Par Sands.
• Views ahead from Polmear to Gribbin Head.

Shorter option

Charlestown (7.3 miles, 11.7 km).

Longer option

Fowey (an additional 6.8 miles, 10.9 km).

Public transport

You can catch a train to Par, from where you can get buses to Mevagissey and Pentewan. For timetable information, zoom in on the interactive map and click on the train station and bus stop symbols, visit Traveline or phone 0871 200 22 33.

Parking

Mevagissey (Postcode for Sat Navs: PL26 6UQ), just before Gwendra Point, Porthpean, Charlestown, inland in St Austell and Par.