Walks around Crackington

Walks around Crackington

Crackington, Cornwall

Enjoy the walks by being guided by the app

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Download the app and use it to explore the walks and to purchase a guided route.
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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.
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The walk route is described with detailed, regularly-updated, hand-written directions.
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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.
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We keep the directions continually updated for changes to the paths/landmarks - the price for a walk includes ongoing free updates.
  • 3.2 miles/5.1 km - Easy-moderate

    Poundstock to Penfound

    Poundstock Gildhouse

    Poundstock to Penfound

    3.2 miles/5.1 km - Easy-moderate

    A circular walk along country lanes, tracks and through fields to Penfound Manor - thought to be the oldest continually-inhabited ancestral home in England - from Poundstock church and gildhouse - the only surviving mediaeval church house of its kind in Cornwall.

  • 3.4 miles/5.5 km - Easy-moderate

    Jacobstow to Poulza

    Lane to Jacobstow

    Jacobstow to Poulza

    3.4 miles/5.5 km - Easy-moderate

    A circular countryside walk around the Saxon area of Jacobstow near Bude where an ancient mediaeval altar was removed from the church during the 16th Century and used as a footbridge over a stream, then used as a churchyard seat in Victorian times, and finally returned to the church in the 1970s.

  • 3 miles/4.8 km - Moderate

    Millook to Trebarfoote

    Millook Haven

    Millook to Trebarfoote

    3 miles/4.8 km - Moderate

    A circular walk through Woodland Trust reserves of the ancient Millook woods, meadows to the former smuggling den and 1920s wild party venue of Trebarfoote, and along the coast from Cancleave Strand to Millook Haven where colliding continents have melted and folded the rocks like toffee.

  • 2.9 miles/4.6 km - Moderate-strenuous

    Crackington Haven to St Genny's Church

    Cambeak

    Crackington Haven to St Genny's Church

    2.9 miles/4.6 km - Moderate-strenuous

    A circular walk from the surf beach at Crackington Haven to the mediaeval church at St Genny's via the imposing Penkenna Point, where there are spectacular views of the bay and the secluded landing points used by some of North Cornwall's most notorious smugglers and wreckers.

  • 4.3 miles/6.9 km - Moderate-strenuous

    Crackington Haven to The Strangles

    Coastline at Crackington Haven

    Crackington Haven to The Strangles

    4.3 miles/6.9 km - Moderate-strenuous

    A circular walk from Crackington Haven, with panoramic views of the Shipwreck Coast, to the long, sandy Strangles beach, returning through bluebell woodland along the Ludon river valley.

  • 4.8 miles/7.7 km - Moderate-strenuous

    Millook Haven to Dizzard

    Dizzard Woods

    Millook Haven to Dizzard

    4.8 miles/7.7 km - Moderate-strenuous

    A circular walk through the Millook woodland reserves to the ancient gnarled oak forest of The Dizzard, returning along the coast with panoramic views to Hartland Point, to the chevron-folded cliffs and honeycomb reefs of Millook Haven.

  • 4.9 miles/7.8 km - Moderate-strenuous

    The Strangles to Buckator

    View from High Cliff

    The Strangles to Buckator

    4.9 miles/7.8 km - Moderate-strenuous

    A circular walk along the volcanic coastline north of Boscastle, including Cornwall's highest cliff and The Strangles beach with its spectacular arch known as the Northern Door.

  • 3.6 miles/5.8 km - Strenuous

    Poundstock to Millook

    Coastline at Millook

    Poundstock to Millook

    3.6 miles/5.8 km - Strenuous

    A circular walk from Poundstock through bluebell woods along the river to the pretty pebbles and chevron-folded cliffs of Millook Haven and along the coast path with panoramic views from Bridwill Point.

  • 4.5 miles/7.3 km - Strenuous

    St Gennys Church to Dizzard

    Castle Point

    St Gennys Church to Dizzard

    4.5 miles/7.3 km - Strenuous

    A circular walk at St Gennys from the mediaeval church, via the smuggling routes though bluebell woods along the stream and an Iron Age clifftop fort crumbling into the sea, to some of North Cornwall's most remote coastline.

  • 6.4 miles/10.3 km - Strenuous

    Crackington Haven to Widemouth (via bus)

    Sunset at Widemouth

    Crackington Haven to Widemouth (via bus)

    6.4 miles/10.3 km - Strenuous

    A one-way coastal walk, made circular via an initial bus journey, along the Shipwreck Coast from Crackington Haven to Widemouth Bay passing the bluebell woodland of ancient twisted oaks at The Dizzard, chevron folded rocks and honeycomb reefs of Millook Haven and fossil beds of Wanson Mouth.

  • 7 miles/11.2 km - Strenuous

    Crackington Haven to Boscastle (via bus)

    Northern Door on Strangles Beach

    Crackington Haven to Boscastle (via bus)

    7 miles/11.2 km - Strenuous

    A one-way coastal walk, made circular via an initial bus journey, along the Shipwreck Coast from Crackington Haven to Boscastle passing the highest cliff in Cornwall and the long, sandy beach at The Strangles.

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