Circular walks beside the West Looe River

Circular walks beside the West Looe River

the West Looe River, Cornwall
  • 3 miles/4.8 km - Easy-moderate

    Looe woodland, river and coast

    Looe

    Looe woodland, river and coast

    3 miles/4.8 km - Easy-moderate

    A walk following the West Looe river from woods to its confluence and then to meet the Atlantic beside one of Cornwall's mediaeval ports.

  • 5.1 miles/8.3 km - Easy-moderate

    Deerpark to Herodsfoot

    Bluebells in Deerpark woods

    Deerpark to Herodsfoot

    5.1 miles/8.3 km - Easy-moderate

    A woodland walk in what's likely to have been a mediaeval deer park to the site of Cornwall's second-largest gunpowder manufacturing operation, which despite exploding several times was sufficiently successful to give rise to a nearby sister site known as Trago Mills.

  • 3.1 miles/4.9 km - Moderate

    Kilminorth Woods and the Giant's Hedge

    Kilminorth Woods

    Kilminorth Woods and the Giant's Hedge

    3.1 miles/4.9 km - Moderate

    A woodland walk alongside the West Looe River where the Giant's Hedge once divided kingdoms of the Dark Ages, centuries before the ancient trees that now tower above it were even seedlings.

  • 6.4 miles/10.3 km - Moderate

    Pelynt and the West Looe Valley

    Woodland in the West Looe Valley

    Pelynt and the West Looe Valley

    6.4 miles/10.3 km - Moderate

    A circular walk in the West Looe valley to St Nun's Well where it is said that if a bent pin is not left as an offering, clouds of piskies will accompany the visitor home and cause mischief.

  • 6.5 miles/10.5 km - Moderate

    Duloe to Herodsfoot

    Duloe Stone Circle

    Duloe to Herodsfoot

    6.5 miles/10.5 km - Moderate

    A circular walk through the woodland along the West Looe River to Herodsfoot from Duloe, where Cornwall's smallest stone circle stands.

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