I re-walked this, with my friends and neighbours Bob and Pam, between October 2009 and May 2010. When completed, it will take the form of 36 stages from Welcombe Mouth, just over the Devon border, to Cremyll, opposite Plymouth, 312 miles on the GPS. It will include detailed GPS data, descriptions and my diary for each stage. There will also be a lot of information on interest along the way, public transport, car parking, refreshments, toilets and guidance for B&Bs.
This is a solo project that I started in June 2010. The intention is to complete a dozen or fifteen of the best and most interesting round walks starting from locations on the Coast Path. These will include walks from Northcott Mouth, Boscastle, Polzeath, Padstow, Holywell Bay and Chapel Porth on the north coast; Pendeen Watch and Lamorna in West Penwith; and Kynance Cove, Portscatho and Cremyll on the south coast. The format and content will be broadly similar to that on the Coast Path Page.
This was a Heritage Lottery funded project, due to be completed in 2008. As all such projects do, it encountered problems and ran late, eventually being more or less completed in 2010. I walked all these trails while they were being worked on, not always on the final route. In 2010 I walked them again - the Coast-to-Coast, the Redruth and Chacewater, the Portreath Branchline, the Tresavean and the Great Flat Lode. I have also devised my own Tolgus Trail and Walkers Alternative Coast-to-Coast.
Like the Mining Trails, the Clay Trails were devised as cycle routes, most as part the Cornish Way cycle route, itself part of the National Cycle Network. They also make easy walking routes. Present routes are Wheal Martyn, Bugle and Par Beach to the Eden Project; and Pentewan to St. Austell and Wheal Martyn. I have also devised a round walk from Pentewan, using a clay trail, a cycle route to Mevagissey, and the coast path. There are rumours that a new route will link Goss Moor with Bugle and therefore Eden; no news on this yet.
The Land's End Trail runs from Land's End to Avebury. Its Cornish Section, as far as Tavistock in Devon, is now complete. Robert Preston and I have been working on the directions from Tavistock to Land's End and hope to post those soon. The Tavistock to Avebury section is complete and uploaded as far as Dulverton. We are working on the rest of the route and hope to have that complete later in 2010.
