Circular walks around St Nectans Glen

Circular walks around St Nectans Glen

St Nectans Glen, Cornwall

Enjoy the walks by being guided by the app

Phone showing walk for purchase
Download the app and use it to explore the walks and to purchase a guided route.
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The app will direct you to the start of the walk via satnav.
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The app guides you around the walk using GPS, removing any worries about getting lost.
Phone showing walk directions page in the iWalk Cornwall app
The walk route is described with detailed, regularly-updated, hand-written directions.
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Each time there is a new direction to follow, the app will beep to remind you, and will warn you if you go off-route.
Phone showing walk map page in the iWalk Cornwall app
A map shows the route, where you are at all times and even which way you are facing.
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Each walk is packed with information about the history and nature along the route, from over a decade of research than spans more than 3,000 topics.
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Once a walk is downloaded, the app doesn't need a phone or wifi signal during the walk.
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The app counts down distance to the next direction and estimates time remaining based on your personal walking speed.
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We keep the directions continually updated for changes to the paths/landmarks - the price for a walk includes ongoing free updates.

St Nectans Glen is in the valley of the Trevillet River and is most famous for the waterfall known as St Nectan's Kieve. A public footpath passes through the Glen and passes beside St Nectan's Hermitage from which there is access to the waterfall (there is an admission charge).

Download the iWalk Cornwall app and use the QR scanner within the app to find out more about any of the walks above.

We've created two circular walks which pass through St Nectan's Glen, both from the car park at Bossiney. The shorter walk also includes the sandy cove of Bossiney Haven and labyrinthine carvings in Rocky Valley. The longer walk follows the Trevillet River further up the valley from St Nectan's Glen and then crosses to Condolden Barrow where a Celtic king of Cornwall is thought to have been buried.

Walker on cliffsYou can share tips and ask for recommendations for walks in our Walks in Cornwall facebook group.