Circular walks around Poldark Filming Locations

Circular walks around Poldark Filming Locations

Download the (free) iWalk Cornwall app from the App Store or Google Play then use the app to scan the QR code of the walks below for more info, where the walk can be purchased. Once a walk is downloaded, no phone/WiFi signal is needed.

5.4 miles/8.7 km - Moderate-strenuous

Porthcurno, Porthgwarra and Gwennap Head

Porthcurno

A circular walk from Porthcurno, passing the Minack Theatre, St Leven's Holy Well, Porthchapel and Porthgwarra beaches, to Gwennap Head where the English Channel meets the Atlantic and the Runnelstone Reef has claimed so many ships that divers are unsure where the wreckage is from.

5.4 miles/8.6 km - Moderate

Cape Cornwall to Levant

Botallack Head

A circular walk from England's only Cape, via the engine houses of Kenidjack Valley and perched on rock ledges at Botallack Head, to Levant Mine which had over 60 miles of tunnels beneath the Atlantic and now has a working restored beam engine.

4.5 miles/7.3 km - Moderate

Bedruthan Steps

Bedruthan Steps

A circular walk with spectacular views of the rock stacks at Bedruthan Steps, about which the myth of a giant's stepping stones was concocted for the amusement of Victorian tourists flocking to Padstow and Newquay on the new railway.

5.3 miles/8.5 km - Moderate

Gunwalloe Coves

Coastline at Gunwalloe

A circular walk from the Loe Bar to Dollar Cove passing the wrecks of treasure ships whose cargo still washes ashore, returning via the Halzephron Inn which still has a trapdoor leading to an underground network of tunnels used by smugglers.

4.9 miles/7.9 km - Easy-moderate

Holywell to Crantock

Dunes at Holywell Bay

A circular walk from Holywell Bay past the remarkable sacred spring and along the coast to the sandy beaches of Porth Joke and Crantock, returning via the poppy fields of West Pentire and the Cubert Common nature conservation area.

There is a choice of over 250 more walks in Cornwall available via the app.
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