Cape Cornwall
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SW369313 Turn right from the village car park and past The Commercial PH. Cross the main village road and a triangular area. Pass the church then bend left at ‘The Labour Exchange’. Ignore a footpath sign right, instead take a narrow tarmac track with walls on both sides, narrowing to a tarmac path as it descends to cross a road.
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SW373316 Head uphill through a field then right of a large house. Turn left onto a tarmac lane then cross a road onto a steeply uphill dead-end lane which soon narrows. Turn left at a T-junction onto a small lane, then just before tarmac ends fork right onto a wide path between walls. Cross a vehicle track then the path narrows between high hedgerows; follow a field edge to a road junction.
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SW373323 Take the road opposite to its end, then use the grassy verge rightwards for about 150m, then cross to fork left into Botallack.
Pass
The
Queen’s
Arms pub, then continue ahead as the road bends right.
Bend left with tarmac then stay right on the main track to the NT café/car park.
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SW365331 It’s worth a short detour here around the former mining area’s extensive ruins; otherwise fork left and downhill on a grassy track past a distinctive archway, then between more ruins and a tall chimney. Turn left along the SWCP on a wider stony path and contour to merge with a byway. On a bend left, fork right (towards Cape Cornwall) along a wide grassy track and on to Kenidjak Castle (ruins).
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SW355324 Just before the ruins, follow a low SWCP sign leftwards down a narrower stony path through gorse. Fork left after a stone stile, briefly on a track then follow a SWCP sign right and down a few steps, descending into the Nancherrow valley. Fork left up the valley on a bridleway, then cross the valley just below further mining ruins. Rise steeply up the far side and turn right, joining a narrow path through bracken. Fork right onto a track near a white house and out towards the Cape Cornwall road. Head rightwards down a narrow path to avoid the road, then diagonally right to pass St Helen’s Oratory (ruin). Follow SWCP waymarkers up to the chimney on the summit.
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SW350318 Loop back from the chimney then take a paralleling path back along the ridgeline then right over an awkward rocky step down to a track. Head uphill on this, right at a gateway and down to the tarmac slipway track. Head left up this, then hairpin right onto a rough gravel track up to a tarmac road end at NT Carn Gloose.
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SW354312 Follow SWCP markers right onto a grassy track
opposite a trig point. Pass Ballowall Barrow, then descend across the hillside towards a tarmac track. Take a shortcutting footpath right, then briefly along the road; a footpath soon leads left, across the valley and diagonally up the hillside to join a larger path near the scrambly outcrop rocks above Porth Nanven. Turn a corner to regain the coastline, pass a series of mineshafts leading into the hillside, then hairpin left uphill. Fork right towards Sennen Cove at a junction of paths then continue rightwards past a sign ‘Letcha’.
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SW357301 Take a footpath left and up through Letcha Farm to the YH entrance driveway. Turn right and uphill onto a lane, then left onto a footpath by Lower Cot Mill. Cross the valley then rise up two fields then join the end of a road and out to a T-junction on a bend. Continue ahead, pass the village recreation ground, then turn right opposite school playing fields to return to the car park.