Circular walks around Torpoint
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Cremyll to Maker Church
3 miles/4.8 km - Moderate
A circular walk on a peninsula protruding into the Hamoaze estuary and where the land was dotted with gun batteries, defending against a potential invasion from Napoleon.
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Rame Head and Cawsand
5.6 miles/9.0 km - Moderate
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.
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Mount Edgcumbe to Kingsand
5.7 miles/9.1 km - Moderate
A circular walk though the Mount Edgcumbe Country Park to Kingsand with views over Plymouth Sound including Drake's Island where Drake set sail to circumnavigate the globe, and the breakwater which Napoleon described as an engineering masterpiece as he left England on his prison ship.
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Portwrinkle to Sheviock
3.8 miles/6.1 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk from the beach and tiny harbour of Portwrinkle to the small village of Sheviock, thought to be Cornish for "abounding in strawberries", with a church abounding in mediaeval tombs.
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Portwrinkle to Downderry
6.7 miles/10.8 km - Moderate-strenuous
A circular walk around Whitsand Bay to Downderry from Portwrinkle where the ghost of Silas Finn is said to haunt the cliffs.
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