Circular walks around Porthleven
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3.3 miles/5.3 km - Easy-moderate
Penrose to the Loe Bar
Penrose to the Loe Bar
3.3 miles/5.3 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk alongside the Loe Pool to the Loe Bar and back via the farm on the hill spur, which in Cornish gave the name to the Penrose Estate.
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6 miles/9.6 km - Easy-moderate
Penrose and Porthleven
Penrose and Porthleven
6 miles/9.6 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk through the woodland alongside the Loe to the most southerly port on the British mainland, famous for its huge storm waves.
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6 miles/9.7 km - Easy-moderate
Praa Sands to Prussia Cove
Praa Sands to Prussia Cove
6 miles/9.7 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk on Cornwall's Channel coast where horses carried ore, Victorian fishermen built huts and smugglers sailed to France, but before all this Neolithic people settled and worked flints carried down the English Channel from chalk areas during the Ice Age
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6.2 miles/10 km - Easy-moderate
The Loe
The Loe
6.2 miles/10 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk around the Loe Pool, the largest natural freshwater lake in Cornwall, and along the Loe Bar, one of Cornwall's most treacherous beaches on which 100 of those onboard the HMS Anson drowned metres from the shore, motivating the invention of the rocket lifesaving apparatus that saved thousands of lives.
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4.4 miles/7 km - Moderate
Praa Sands to Trewavas Mine
Praa Sands to Trewavas Mine
4.4 miles/7 km - Moderate
A circular walk from Praa sands across Rinsey Head to the engine house of the ironically-named Wheal Prosper, and Trewavas mine where an engine house now forms part of the path
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4.8 miles/7.8 km - Moderate
Godolphin to Tregonning
Godolphin to Tregonning
4.8 miles/7.8 km - Moderate
A circular walk from the mansion with possibly the oldest formal gardens in the country to two hills that altered the course of history, creating the wealthiest estate in Cornwall and giving rise to the Cornish China Clay industry.
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6.8 miles/10.9 km - Moderate-strenuous
Porthleven to Rinsey Head
Porthleven to Rinsey Head
6.8 miles/10.9 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk from Porthleven to the cliff-edge engine houses of Rinsey Head and Trewavas where the under-sea mine, set out with tables and food for the annual Tribute dinner, is said to have been breached by the sea just minutes before all the miners were due underground.
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