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The
Southwest Coast Path -
Somerset - Devon - Cornwall - Dorset
Self-Guided
Tours
630
miles (1014km) of unequalled coastal walking, divided by counties
to make your selection easier.
Start and finish your holiday anywhere from Minehead in Somerset
to Poole in Dorset.
Please note that all distances shown are approximate.
Somerset
and North Devon
The
S.W.C.P. begins on the sea front at Minehead, climbing
up onto rugged Exmoor with its purple terrain and high
coastal cliffs, passing the tiny Culbone Church, with
spectacular cliff and coastal scenery all the way to the
highest point at Lynton, then descending to softer terrain
from Combe Martin with Sandy Bays tiny coves and rocky
headlands, the long sandy beaches at Woolacombe and Braunton.
Round The Taw/Torridge Estuary skirting the Market Town
of Barnstaple and the port of Bideford. The old shipbuilding
town of Appledore with its narrow streets and the long
sandy beach at Westward Ho! The path rounds Bideford Bay
on the edge of fields and scrub oak woods littered with
wild flowers, to the old fishing village of Bucks Mills
and Clovelly with its 17th century harbour and steep cobbled
street. On through wooded cliff tops round Hartland Point
to Hartland Quay. |
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| Somerset
/ North Devon Section |
| Section |
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Distance |
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Walking
Grades |
| 1 |
Minehead |
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9.5
miles |
15.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 2 |
Porlock
Weir |
|
12.5
miles |
20.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 3 |
Lynmouth |
|
13.5
miles |
21.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 4 |
Combe
Martin |
|
12.5
miles |
20.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 5 |
Woolacombe |
|
15.0
miles |
24.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 6 |
Braunton |
|
5.5
miles |
8.5
km |
|
easy |
| 7 |
Barnstaple |
|
19.0
miles |
30.5
km |
|
easy |
| 8 |
Westward
Ho! |
|
11.0
miles |
18.0
km |
|
strenuous |
| 9 |
Clovelly |
|
10.5
miles |
16.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 10 |
Hartland
Quay |
|
10.0
miles |
16.0
km |
|
severe |
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Railway Station
Barnstaple
Airport
Exeter
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Books
R.D. Blackmoors 'Lorna Doone'
Henry Williamson 'Tarka The Otter'
Charles Kingsley 'The Water Babies' and
'Westward Ho!'
Charles Dickens 'Message from the Sea'
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lush green landscape of North Devon is replaced by rugged
headlands exposing amazing distorted rock strata and secret
sandy coves on Cornwall's Atlantic Coast. The trees found
here are usually in sheltered valleys protected from the
winter westerly winds between the cliff top headlands. Delightful
fishing villages, Boscastle with its tiny harbour, Port
Issac and Padstow. The mysterious legend of Port Quin. Rocky
inlets at Crackington Haven and Trebarwith Strand. Tintagel,
with its castle and the legend of King Arthur. Coves with
evocative names like 'Hell's Mouth' 'Porth Joke' and 'Deadmans
Cove.' |
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Cornwall, Atlantic Coast Section |
| Section |
|
Distance |
|
Walking
Grades |
| 11 |
Stibb
| |
12.0
miles |
19.0
km |
|
strenuous |
| 12 |
Crackington
Haven
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7.0
miles |
11.0
km |
|
strenuous |
| 13 |
Boscastle
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13.5
miles |
22.0
km |
|
strenuous |
| 14 |
Port
lsaac
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11.5
miles |
19.0
km |
|
strenuous
(Ferry) |
| 15 |
Padstow
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13.5
miles |
22.0
km |
|
easy |
| 16 |
Porthcothan
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11.0
miles |
18.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 17 |
Newquay
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11.0
miles |
17.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 18 |
Perranporth
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12.0
miles |
19.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 19 |
Portreath
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18.0
miles |
29.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 20 |
St
Ives
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6.5
miles |
10.5
km |
|
severe |
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Railway Stations
Barnstaple and Bodmin
Airport
Exeter
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Books
Ronald Duncan's 'One Man is an Island'
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Cornwall's
Lands End and Lizard Peninsulas
St
Ives a haven for artist's, attributed to the quality of
it's light, is the gateway to the Lands End Peninsula with
its unspoilt heather covered moors, rugged granite cliffs
and the winding houses and chimneys, relic's left from a
bygone age of tin mining. Stunning views from headlands
at Zennor, Pendeen, Cape Cornwall, Land's End, Gwennap,
Tater-Due and Carn-Du.
Magical Coves at Sennen and Lamorna. The Minack open air
Theatre perched high on the cliff edge at Porthcurno. Mousehole
is a very picturesque little fishing village. St Michaels
Mount reached by boat, from Marazion at high water and by
causeway at low water.
The Lizard coast is littered with coves such as Kynance
and Church Cove, where the church is actually on the beach!
Thatched cottages set around coves at Mullion and Cadgwith.
The Helford River creeks reach inland to Gweek and Constantine.
The interesting sea port of Falmouth. |
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| Cornwall's
Lands End and Lizard Peninsulas Section |
| Section |
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Distance |
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Walking
Grades |
| 21 |
Zennor
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7.0
miles |
11.5
km |
|
severe |
| 22 |
Pendeen
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9.0
miles |
14.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 23 |
Sennen
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6.5
miles |
10.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 24 |
Porthcurno
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11.5
miles |
18.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 25 |
Penzance
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14.0
miles |
22.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 26 |
Porthleven
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14.0
miles |
22.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 27 |
The
Lizard
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10.5
miles |
17.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 28 |
Coverack
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13.0
miles |
21.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 29 |
Helford
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10.0
miles |
16.0
km |
|
moderate
(Ferry) |
| 30 |
Falmouth
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13.5
miles |
22.0
km |
|
moderate
(Ferry) |
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Railway Stations
St Ives, Penzance, Falmouth.
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Books
Derrick Tangy 'The Minack Chronicles'
Winston Graham 'Poldark'
Daphne Du Maurier's 'Jamaca Inn'
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South Cornwall
| From
the historic sea port of Falmouth strategically placed on
the mouth of Carrick Roads and guarded by the 16th century
Penndennis Castle on one side and St Mawes Castle on the
other. Crossing to St Antony Head, the coast is gentler
footpath continues around serene headlands affording spectacular
views over bays sheltering Pretty Villages such as Portloe,
Mevagissey, Polperro and Cawsand. Also on route is Charlestown
Harbour with its collection of old square-rigged sailing
ships and shipwreck centre. Fowey a delightful Town with
narrow streets was an important Town in the Crusades. St
Catherine Castle was built in the 14th century to protect
the port from the French. |
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| South
Cornwall Section |
| Section |
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Distance |
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Walking
Grades |
| 31 |
Portloe
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12.5
miles |
20.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 32 |
Mevagissey
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7.0
miles |
11.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 33 |
Charlestown
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10.5
miles |
16.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 34 |
Fowey
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12.0
miles |
19.5
km |
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strenuous
(Ferry) |
| 35 |
Looe
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17.5
miles |
28.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 36 |
Kingsand
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18.5
miles |
29.5
km |
|
easy |
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Railway
Stations
Falmouth, Truro, St Austell, Looe
and Plymouth
Airport
Newquay,
Plymouth |
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South Devon
| Rich,
lush rolling countryside, red sandstone cliffs, sculptured
by the sea. wooded river valleys and chocolate box cottages
this is South Devon,s coast line. The naval port of Plymouth
is the start of this section, passing Newton Ferrers and
Noss Mayo set in a deep Oak-wooded valley in the Yelm estuary.
Salcombe beautifully set in a wooded valley with a pretty
harbour Dartmouth, a charming Town with the ruins of its
Castle still guarding the estuary mouth. One of the most
beautiful estuaries is the Teign with Shaldon and Teignmouth
on either side of the mouth. High red sandstone cliffs affording
good viewing points interspersed with the small coastal
towns of Dawlish, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth and Seaton
to the Dorset border. |
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| South
Devon Section |
| Section |
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Distance |
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Walking
Grades |
| 37 |
Wembury
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13.5
miles |
22.0
km |
|
strenuous |
| 38 |
Bigbury-on-Sea
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13.5
miles |
22.0
km |
|
strenuous (Ferry) |
| 39 |
Salcombe
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13.0
miles |
21.0
km |
|
strenuous
(Ferry) |
| 40 |
Torcross
| |
10.0
miles |
16.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 41 |
Dartmouth
| |
11.0
miles |
17.5
km |
|
strenuous
(Ferry) |
| 42 |
Brixham
| |
8.5
miles |
13.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 43 |
Torquay
| |
11.0
miles |
17.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 44 |
Shaldon
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8.0
miles |
13.0
km |
|
easy
(Ferry) |
| 45 |
Exmouth
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13.0
miles |
21.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 46 |
Sidmouth
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10.5
miles |
16.5
km |
|
strenuous |
| 47 |
Seaton
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14.0
miles |
23.0
km |
|
moderate |
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Railway
Stations
Plymouth, Painton, Newton Abbot,
Exmouth, Honiton
Airport
Plymouth,
Exeter
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Dorset
Dorset's
coast ranges from sweeping valleys, high cliffs, with
sea sculptured pillars, arches and coves, to the shingled
Chesil Beach and sandy beaches at Weymouth, Swanage and
Studland Bay, from Lyme Regis, with its famous Cob, the
pretty villages of Charmouth with its thatched cottages
and Burton Bradstock.
Thatched
yellow stone cottages and the famous medieval swannery
at Abbotsbury. Nature's spectacular sculptures at Durdle
Door and Lulworth Cove. |
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Dorset Section |
| Section |
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Distance |
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Walking
Grades |
| 48 |
Seatown
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12.5
miles |
20.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 49 |
Abbotsbury
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14.5
miles |
23.0
km |
|
strenuous |
| 50 |
Weymouth
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13.0
miles |
25.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 51 |
Isle
of Portland
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13.0
miles |
21.5
km |
|
moderate |
| 52 |
Lulworth
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11.0
miles |
17.5
km |
|
severe |
| 53 |
Chapman's Pool (Kingston)
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10.0
miles |
16.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 54 |
Swanage
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7.5
miles |
12.0
km |
|
moderate |
| 55 |
Poole Harbour (South Haven Point)
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Railway
Stations
Axminster, Weymouth, Wool and Poole |
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The
Self-Guided Southwest Coast Path Tariff Includes: |
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Basic |
Complete |
Single Supp |
| 5
nights, 4 days walking |
£285 |
£335 |
£70 |
| 7
nights, 6 days walking |
£385 |
£455 |
£98 |
| 9
nights, 8 days walking |
£495 |
£585 |
£126 |
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The Basic Self-Guided
Southwest
Coast Path Tariff Includes:
- Accommodation
including breakfast
- Luggage
transfers ahead of you every walking day
- Maps
and Guides of your route
Please note: we will endeavour to secure
en-suite/private facilities, however this cannot be guaranteed.
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The Complete Self-Guided
Southwest
Coast Path Tariff Includes:
- Transport
from the nearest coach or railway station to your
first nights accommodation
- Accommodation
includes breakfast and packed lunch every
walking day
- Luggage
transfers ahead of you every walking day
- Maps
and Guides of your route
- Transport
back to the nearest coach, railway station or
- Transport
back to your car at the end of your holiday (Please note that this may incur an additional charge)
Please note: we will endeavour to secure
en-suite/private facilities, however this cannot be guaranteed.
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