iWalk Cornwall

The walk is just over 4 miles, starting from Rilla Mill. There are a few steep fields to climb which is why we've graded it moderate-strenuous. Fortunately, it passes the pub just before the end so the appetite and/or thirst you've worked up can be satiated. View Walk

This is a relatively short circular walk at 4 miles but packs in a huge amount of mining heritage, some rugged coastline, a lighthouse, and a gorgeous sandy cove. View Walk The route passes through the Geevor and Levant mines, both which are open to the public, but not on Saturdays. Levant has a restored beam engine and Geevor was one of the last mines to close. They are connected underground by a tunnel created in the 1960s after a leak was plugged in the seabed that flooded the Levant tunnels and 50 million gallons of water were pumped out. The network of tunnels stretches for over 60 miles and extends 1.5 miles out beneath the sea. Where the route meets the coast, the cliffs are stained turquoise with copper salts that have washed out of the mine dumps. A good many ships have met their end on the rocks around Pendeen Watch and so the lighthouse was built at the end of the 19th century. It was a massive engineering project that involved levelling the end of the headland and to

These are two circular walks close to the Devon border near Launceston. The walks are in the region between the River Ottery and the Tamar which was moved into the county of Devon when the Normans redrew the borders - prior to this, the parishes were in Cornwall which is reflected in their more ancient history from the Dark Ages. In the 1960s, the River Tamar was re-instated as the border between Devon and Cornwall. The River Tamar rises so close to the North Cornish coast that the strip of Cornwall which is not separated from Devon by the River Tamar is only around 3.5 miles wide. View Walk The walk passes the far end of the Bude Canal at Druxton Wharf. The soils in the Launceston area are composed of heavy clay, on a geological formation known as the Culm Measures, that easily become waterlogged. The result of decaying vegetation is that the soils become acidic, and many plants used for crops are unable to absorb nitrogen effectively in acidic soils. In addition, the soils are