Walks around Mawgan Porth

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Mawgan Porth to St Mawgan
4 miles/6.4 km - Easy-moderate
A circular walk from Mawgan Porth along the Vale of Lanherne, following the river Menalhyl to St Mawgan and returning past the 800-year-old cloistered Convent where the sanctuary light has been burning for hundreds of years.
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Porthcothan, Bedruthan Steps and Mawgan Porth
4.4 miles/7.1 km - Easy-moderate
A (bus-assisted) one-way walk along the coast with spectacular wildflowers and one of Cornwall's most photographed views over the volcanic rock stacks of Bedruthan Steps, which Victorians liked to think of as a giant's stepping stones.
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Bedruthan Steps
4.5 miles/7.3 km - Moderate
A circular walk with spectacular views of the rock stacks at Bedruthan Steps about which the myth of a giant's stepping stones was concocted for the amusement of Victorian tourists flocking to Padstow and Newquay on the new railway.
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Bedruthan Steps to Porthcothan
6.2 miles/10 km - Moderate
A circular walk featuring some of the most spectacular scenery of the North Cornish coast including the rock stacks of Bedruthan Steps, the azure lagoon of the Trescore Islands and the sheltered golden sandy beach at Porthcothan.
Download the iWalk Cornwall app and use the QR scanner within the app to find out more about any of the walks above.
If you'd like a purely coastal walk, you can park at Mawgan Porth and catch the bus to Porthcothan, then do our one-way walk from Porthcothan to Mawgan Porth via Bedruthan Steps. There is also a circular walk up the Vale of Lanherne from Mawgan Porth to St Mawgan.