Walks in Cornwall on the Clay Trails

Enjoy the walks by being guided by the app

Download the app and use it to explore the walks and to purchase a guided route.

Phone showing Google navigation to start of walk

The app will direct you to the start of the walk via satnav.

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The app guides you around the walk using GPS, removing any worries about getting lost.

Phone showing walk directions page in the iWalk Cornwall app

The walk route is described with detailed, regularly-updated, hand-written directions.

Each time there is a new direction to follow, the app will beep to remind you, and will warn you if you go off-route.

Phone showing walk map page in the iWalk Cornwall app

A map shows the route, where you are at all times and even which way you are facing.

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Each walk is packed with information about the history and nature along the route, from over a decade of research than spans more than 3,000 topics.

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Once a walk is downloaded, the app doesn't need a phone or wifi signal during the walk.

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The app counts down distance to the next direction and estimates time remaining based on your personal walking speed.

We keep the directions continually updated for changes to the paths/landmarks - the price for a walk includes ongoing free updates.

App Store

Download iPhone/iPad app from App Store

Scan with your phone to get the Apple app

Google Play

Download Android app from Google Play

Scan with your phone to get the Android app

The Coast and Clay Trails is a 45 mile public access network of tracks and roads in the area around St Austell. The trails were first opened as "The Clay Trails" in 2005 as part of a restoration programme to provide new habitats for flora and fauna. There's a Clay Trails website with more info.

2.2 miles/3.6 km - Easy

Eden Project

Eden Project

2.2 miles/3.6 km - Easy

A walk though a granite landscape mined first for tin, then china clay and now for geothermal power to generate electricity and heat the space-age greenhouses of the Eden Project.
3.2 miles/5.2 km - Easy

King's Wood and Pentewan Valley

King's Wood and Pentewan Valley

3.2 miles/5.2 km - Easy

A circular walk through the King's Wood Woodland Trust reserve to the lost port of Pentewan, along the trackbed of the horse-drawn tramway that once carried china clay to the busy port and via the system of reservoirs and sluices that were used to flush sand out of the harbour.
5 miles/8 km - Easy-moderate

St Austell, Clay Trails and Menacuddle Well

St Austell, Clay Trails and Menacuddle Well

5 miles/8 km - Easy-moderate

A circular walk in china clay country, including a trail laid on the trackbed of a mineral railway from St Austell to the Cornish Alps and one of Cornwall's most picturesque holy wells.
5.3 miles/8.5 km - Moderate-strenuous

Pentewan, Heligan and Mevagissey

Pentewan, Heligan and Mevagissey

5.3 miles/8.5 km - Moderate-strenuous

A circular walk from Pentewan to Mevagissey via The Lost Gardens of Heligan which were discovered in the 1990s after 7 decades of neglect and what followed The Times described as the garden restoration of the century.
6.6 miles/10.6 km - Strenuous

Pentewan Valley and Black Head

Pentewan Valley and Black Head

6.6 miles/10.6 km - Strenuous

A circular walk from the lost port of Pentewan along the coast to the remains of the Iron Age fort overlooking St Austell Bay on Black Head, returning via the nature reserve that was once the King's wood and the trackbed of the horse-drawn tramway used for china clay and Sunday School outings.

Download the iWalk Cornwall app and use the QR scanner within the app to find out more about any of the walks above.