Walks around Delabole

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The Camelford Way
1.8 miles/2.9 km - Easy
A short and easy circular walk from Camelford along the wildflower-rich meadows of the River Camel to the clapper bridge at Fenteroon, returning through the fields with views over the Camel Valley.
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Delabole
3.6 miles/5.8 km - Moderate
A circular walk around Delabole past the slate quarry, along back lanes and tracks, and through fields and bluebell woods.
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Slate quarry trail
5.1 miles/8.2 km - Moderate
A circular route around historic slate quarries which have now been reclaimed by nature to the ancient quarry at Delabole which was the largest man-made hole in Europe for many years and is still worked, returning via the restored engine house overlooking Trebarwith Valley.
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Delabole to Lanteglos
5.6 miles/9 km - Moderate
A circular walk through bluebell woodland, fields and along back lanes from Delabole to Camelford's parish church at Lanteglos returning via the Iron Age forts of Castle Goff and Delinuth Camp.
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Trebarwith Valley to Backways Cove
4 miles/6.4 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk in Trebarwith Valley to beaches and the coastal slate quarries of Backways Cove and Trebarwith Strand, and Dennis Point, overlooking the bay and point opposite where the ships moored to be loaded with roofing slates which were also brought down the valley on a road covered with beach sand to stop the horses being flattened by runaway carts.
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Barrett's Zawn and Dannonchapel
4.7 miles/7.6 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk including some of the more remote parts of the coast path around Port Isaac Bay, passing the Donkey Hole at Barrett's Zawn and returning through the abandoned hamlet of Dannonchapel.
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Trewarmett to Tregardock
5.9 miles/9.5 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk to the remote sandy beach at Tregardock, returning along the coast path with panoramic views of Port Isaac Bay, through the wildflowers of Treligga Downs and via Backways Cove.
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Port Gaverne to Barretts Zawn
6 miles/9.7 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk from Port Gaverne around Port Isaac Bay to Barretts Zawn where a tunnel leads to the beach, through which donkeys used to haul slate.
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Tregardock to Dannonchapel
4 miles/6.4 km - Strenuous
A circular walk from Tregardock, passing the long, remote sandy beach, to the ruins of the mediaeval manor of Dannonchapel, and includes one of the steepest and most spectacular sections of the North Cornish Coast path with vibrant wildflowers in spring and summer.
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Port Isaac to Tintagel
9.7 miles/15.6 km - Strenuous
A one-way walk from Port Isaac to Tintagel along towering cliffs, past the long, sandy beaches of Tregardock and Trebarwith, the slate pinnacles of the coastal quarries and via the mediaeval cliff-top church to the castle of Arthurian legend.
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