Most Popular Walks this Month
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3.4 miles/5.5 km - Easy-moderate
Luxulyan Valley circular
Luxulyan Valley circular
3.4 miles/5.5 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk following the leats and horse-drawn tramways through the World Heritage site of the Luxulyan Valley to the massive viaduct which carried the tramways towards Newquay and water to winch the trams up the valley with a huge waterwheel, recommended in guidebooks as early as the 1920s "as one of the most glorious walks in all Cornwall".
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5.9 miles/9.5 km - Moderate
Carn Brea and the Great Flat Lode
Carn Brea and the Great Flat Lode
5.9 miles/9.5 km - Moderate
A circular walk along the Great Flat Lode, where the Basset family made their fortune from the rich mineral reserves, to Carn Brea where they built a hunting lodge balanced on a tor in the style of a castle.
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6.1 miles/9.8 km - Easy-moderate
Golitha Falls and Siblyback Lake
Golitha Falls and Siblyback Lake
6.1 miles/9.8 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk through the Golitha Falls National Nature Reserve along ancient rights of way to pass around Siblyback Lake, where the remains of a mediaeval field system rise from the water when reservoir levels fall.
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5.2 miles/8.4 km - Moderate-strenuous
Rough Tor and Brown Willy
Rough Tor and Brown Willy
5.2 miles/8.4 km - Moderate-strenuous
A mostly circular walk to Cornwall's two highest tors, passing prehistoric remains including the holy well, summit cairns and settlements.
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2.9 miles/4.7 km - Moderate
Charlestown to Porthpean
Charlestown to Porthpean
2.9 miles/4.7 km - Moderate
A circular walk between the sheltered cove at Porthpean and the historic port of Charlestown, originally built to export copper, then China Clay, and now used for filming by Hollywood and Poldark.
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3.5 miles/5.6 km - Easy-moderate
Mawnan
Mawnan
3.5 miles/5.6 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk through three of the wooded valleys to the sheltered coves at the mouth of the Helford River
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6.1 miles/9.8 km - Moderate
St Just-in-Roseland to St Mawes
St Just-in-Roseland to St Mawes
6.1 miles/9.8 km - Moderate
A circular walk on the Roseland peninsula to St Mawes from the subtropical gardens of St Just church, along Carrick Roads where Europe's only fishery entirely under sail catch oysters using the traditional methods that have sustained their stocks.
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4.7 miles/7.6 km - Easy-moderate
Trelissick
Trelissick
4.7 miles/7.6 km - Easy-moderate
A figure-of-8 walk along the creeks of the River Fal through the 300 acre estate surrounding Trelissick House.
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2.7 miles/4.3 km - Easy
Hayle and The Towans
Hayle and The Towans
2.7 miles/4.3 km - Easy
A circular walk on the Towans at Hayle, where Cornwall's beam engines were cast using sand from a prehistoric lagoon when West Penwith was an island.
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5 miles/8 km - Easy-moderate
Minions and Caradon Hill
Minions and Caradon Hill
5 miles/8 km - Easy-moderate
A walk through the remains of the UK's most productive copper mines which employed thousands of people in Victorian times, including brakemen who each scooted an individual loaded ore wagon down to Liskeard on the railway that forms much of the walk route.
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