Circular walks around Bodmin

Circular walks around Bodmin

Bodmin, 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.
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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.
  • 5.3 miles/8.5 km - Easy

    Dunmere to Grogley Halt

    Bodmin and Wenford Railway

    Dunmere to Grogley Halt

    5.3 miles/8.5 km - Easy

    A circular walk along the Camel valley from Dunmere Halt to Grogley Halt on the Camel Trail, passing the Camel Valley vineyard and the Boscarne platform where the Bodmin-Wenford steam trains depart.

  • 2.5 miles/4 km - Easy-moderate

    Bodmin town and beacon

    Bodmin Beacon

    Bodmin town and beacon

    2.5 miles/4 km - Easy-moderate

    A circular walk to the Beacon Local Nature Reserve, Jail and through Bodmin's historic centre.

  • 2.7 miles/4.4 km - Easy-moderate

    Blisland to Lavethan Wood

    Snowdrops next to Mill Race, near Lavethan

    Blisland to Lavethan Wood

    2.7 miles/4.4 km - Easy-moderate

    A short circular walk from the village of Blisland through the churchyard, two stretches of the Woodland Trust reserve of Lavethan Wood and land which was once the estates of Lavethan and Barlandew manors.

  • 3.2 miles/5.1 km - Easy-moderate

    Lanhydrock Gardens

    Lanhydrock Gardens

    Lanhydrock Gardens

    3.2 miles/5.1 km - Easy-moderate

    A fairly short and easy circular walk through Lanhydrock gardens with plenty of picnic spots along the River Fowey that you can combine with a visit to the house.

  • 3.8 miles/6.1 km - Easy-moderate

    Lanhydrock to Respryn

    Respryn Bridge

    Lanhydrock to Respryn

    3.8 miles/6.1 km - Easy-moderate

    A circular walk through the mature broadleaf woodland in the less well-known areas of the Lanhydrock estate, through bluebell woods and along the River Fowey, past the mediaeval bridge at Respryn, built after numerous prayers for safe passage in the ford-side chapel, had not resulted in the desired outcome.

  • 3.7 miles/5.9 km - Easy-moderate

    St Mabyn to Pencarrow House

    Pencarrow House

    St Mabyn to Pencarrow House

    3.7 miles/5.9 km - Easy-moderate

    A fairly easy circular walk from St Mabyn past the church and through rolling countryside to Pencarrow House and its magnificent gardens.

  • 4.5 miles/7.2 km - Easy-moderate

    Cardinham Woods and Lady Vale

    Cardinham Woods and Lady Vale

    4.5 miles/7.2 km - Easy-moderate

    A circular walk in the wooded valley surrounding Cardinham Water where the mediaeval chapel of St Mary de Valle once stood but now only the Lady Vale mediaeval bridge remains.

  • 5.3 miles/8.5 km - Easy-moderate

    Lanhydrock to Restormel

    Woodland along the River Fowey

    Lanhydrock to Restormel

    5.3 miles/8.5 km - Easy-moderate

    A circular walk from the mediaeval bridge at Respryn along the River Fowey through the bluebell woodland of the Lanhydrock Estate to the circular Norman castle at Restormel which had a pressurised piped water system 700 years ahead of its time.

  • 3.2 miles/5.2 km - Moderate

    Helman Tor and Red Moor

    Woodland on Red Moor

    Helman Tor and Red Moor

    3.2 miles/5.2 km - Moderate

    A circular walk to the neolithic enclosure on the summit of Helman Tor and through the woodland of Cornwall's largest nature reserve.

  • 3.6 miles/5.8 km - Moderate

    Withiel and Tremore Valley

    Tremore Bridge

    Withiel and Tremore Valley

    3.6 miles/5.8 km - Moderate

    A circular walk in the Ruthern and Tremore river valleys following the Saint's Way to Withiel where the award-winning cheese Cornish Yarg was first made from a recipe in a dusty book found in the attic, that is thought to date back to the 13th Century.

  • 4.3 miles/6.9 km - Moderate

    Treslea Downs and Warleggan

    Woodland near Treslea

    Treslea Downs and Warleggan

    4.3 miles/6.9 km - Moderate

    A circular walk at one of Cornwall's more remote and eccentric hamlets, displaying a "twinned with Narnia" sign and with a church where the vicar surrounded his rectory with barbed wire and preached to an empty church containing name cards of his parishioners

  • 4.7 miles/7.6 km - Moderate

    Cardinham and Bury Castle

    Ramparts of Bury Castle

    Cardinham and Bury Castle

    4.7 miles/7.6 km - Moderate

    A circular walk in the tributary valleys of Cardinham Water to the remains of the Bury Castle hill fort where the ramparts are still over 14ft high even after more than 2000 years.

  • 5.2 miles/8.4 km - Moderate

    Bodmin and Bodiniel - the two manors

    Bodmin Church

    Bodmin and Bodiniel - the two manors

    5.2 miles/8.4 km - Moderate

    A figure-of-8 walk through Bodmin's historic centre to the beacon nature reserve and through the woods at Dunmere to Scarlett's Well

  • 5.7 miles/9.2 km - Moderate

    Hellandbridge to St Mabyn

    Helland Bridge

    Hellandbridge to St Mabyn

    5.7 miles/9.2 km - Moderate

    A circular walk from Helland's mediaeval bridge through bluebell woodland and the fields overlooked by the Iron Age rounds at Pencarrow to the Norman church at St Mabyn, dedicated to the daughter of a Celtic King, and returning via the stump of the Neolithic Long Stone which stood for millennia until it was broken up for gateposts in 1850.

  • 6.1 miles/9.9 km - Moderate

    Dunmere, Penhargard and Bodmin Jail

    Dunmere Halt on the Camel Trail

    Dunmere, Penhargard and Bodmin Jail

    6.1 miles/9.9 km - Moderate

    A circular walk along the River Camel from Dunmere through bluebell woods and fields to Penhargard, and along an ancient route lined with wildflowers to Bodmin's historic jail.

  • 6.1 miles/9.9 km - Moderate

    St Wenn to Withiel

    Horses at St Wenn

    St Wenn to Withiel

    6.1 miles/9.9 km - Moderate

    A circular walk from St Wenn in the upper reaches of the Ruthern Valley, through Rosenannon woods and along the Saints' Way pilgrimage route to the mediaeval church at Withiel, where the Rector shut down The Pig and Whistle for being an ungodly establishment.

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