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1st March 2023 -    We are now fully booked on our coast path routes until the end of May but please send quote requests in for June onwards as there is availability for the rest of the year.  If you do plan to walk between now and June then our inland routes, Coleridge Way, Mendip Way, Saints Way  Dartmoor Way and Two Moors Way still have availability for most dates so please get in touch.

Westward Ho! to Padstow South West Coast Path

Your Walking Holiday Route along the North Coast

Section 4. Bude to Crackington Haven - Cornwall Coast Path

Distance 10 miles - Grade Easy grade for 4 miles then all Strenuous - What these grades mean

Cornwall Walking Holidays along the South West Coast Path to Padstow

Leaving Bude via its unusual sea lock it's a relaxing mornings walk passing Compass point with its Pepperpot Tower and panoramic views to Lundy Island, Tintagel and the great Tors of Dartmoor National Park. On a broad grassy coastal path you pass through miles of golden Sand at Widemouth Bay in front of Black Rock, home to the ghost of Wrecker Featherstone banished there to make rope from its sands for eternity.

From here the walking gets progressively more and more demanding reaching smuggling country at Millock with its extraordinary zigzag rock strata formations (the Crackington Strata). Up on The Dizzard you pass its prehistoric dwarf oak and mountain ash copse, a unique bonsai forest stunted and twisted by the storms from the Atlantic. Traversing the aptly named Butterfly valley the day ends with a parade of hidden smugglers coves, coombes and waterfalls the final one at Aller Shoot before a steep descent to the welcoming valley and hamlet at Crackington Haven and its superb location right on the beach.

Overnight stops in Crackington Haven on the South West Coast Path

 

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