Circular walks around The Tamar Valley

Circular walks around The Tamar Valley

Download the (free) iWalk Cornwall app from the App Store or Google Play then use the app to scan the QR code of the walks below for more info, where the walk can be purchased. Once a walk is downloaded, no phone/WiFi signal is needed.

3.9 miles/6.2 km - Moderate

Cotehele to Metherell

Cotehele Gardens

A circular walk via the quays, woods, engine house and mills of the Cotehele Estate where by Georgian times the house had become a tourist attraction because it was so antiquated, and has changed little since.

5.9 miles/9.5 km - Moderate

Cotehele to Calstock

Calstock Viaduct

A circular walk through the gardens of Cotehele to Calstock where Cornwall's largest Roman fort once stood, the Vikings allied with the Cornish to fight off the Saxons, and more recently railway wagons were lifted over 100ft by steam power from the quay to the top of the viaduct.

4.5 miles/7.2 km - Moderate-strenuous

Rilla Mill and Plushabridge

River Lynher

A circular walk from Rilla Mill with views across Cornwall to the Cheesewring and Kit Hill, and along the River Lynher through the Colquite Woodland reserve and via medieval bridges to where the ancient mill stood until the 1960s and the leats can still be seen.

4.2 miles/6.7 km - Moderate

Werrington to Bridgetown

Werrington Church

A circular walk through two tributary valleys of the River Tamar in a parish that was borrowed by Devon for 800 years, passing the remains of the wharf at the furthest reaches of the Bude Canal.

5.6 miles/9.0 km - Moderate

Rame Head and Cawsand

Rame Head

A circular walk around Rame Head - the southeastern corner of Cornwall - past the mediaeval chapel and the remains of a huge gun battery, now a nature reserve, on Penlee Point to Cawsand which was once the smuggling capital of Cornwall.

There is a choice of over 250 more walks in Cornwall available via the app.
You can explore them via "Walks Shop".