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The Schneider Trophy There are splendid views over the , Mylor, -Carrick Roads- Jacques Schneider was a French industrialist, plane and balloon pilot. 1 Falmouth and the surrounding countryside from here. Deprived of flying due to a serious accident, he supported various St Just-in-Roseland Church- competitions and aero clubs financially. St Mawes In 1912, he noticed that seaplane design was lagging far behind This walk is to be taken as an extension to Walk 1, other aircraft. Since seaplanes promised to be the best solution for so the leaflet for Walk 1 will also be required. long-range passenger service, he devised a seaplane race to encourage these aircraft to improve more quickly.

Bill Hosie in his Supermarine S5 floatplane taking off in the Carrick Roads after launching from St Just Creek. Photo: Les Ellyatt collection. F wa l k

Footpath at Tregear Vean overlooking Carrick Roads (Image courtesy of Les Ellyatt)

At the end of the path, go left over a stile on to the road C just before the water tower where you rejoin Walk 1 C turning right to return to St Mawes. ST JUST-IN- E two ROSELAND C After exploring the churchyard gardens make your way to the top lychgate. CHURCH Note the granite stones on the path, erected by the 1 Reverend Humphrey Davis (1901-1930) - each stone has text from the scriptures, hymns and poetry. From this lychgate you can look back over the top of the church towards the pool. Churchtown Farmhouse in the 1920s From the lychgate, turn half left across the lane to the A very different view today. The image may well have been taken to mark C an event such as a newly completed thatch. Some of the original cottage post with the yellow marker (opposite the toilets). Very still remains but today this is no longer a working farm. soon another post with a yellow arrow shows the path (Image courtesy of Ralph and Lesley German) turning sharp right and up steps to the top. Here follow Further reading and web resources: another yellow arrow towards a gate (NT Churchtown OS Explorer 105 Farm). E This is known as the "coffin path". There is The Roseland Between River and Sea by Laurence O'Toole 1978 St Mawes Back Along by Dave McCree 1997 no burial place at St Mawes so people used this route to National Trust Coast of Series: 18/19 The Roseland and St Anthony Head carry their dead for burial to St Just. Climb over the www.acornishriver.co.uk adjacent stile on the right and walk up the track to the © St Just in Roseland Parish Council 2007 top where, just before the road, you need to climb over Designed and produced in West Cornwall by graemeandrust.co.uk

a stile on your right which leads to a path that follows Supported by: the road inside the hedge. St Just in Roseland Carrick Parish Council Regeneration Team Walk 2 8 9 10

This walk is to be taken as an extension to Walk 1, so the St Mawes-Carrick Roads- Approaching St Just, the path bears sharp right by a leaflet for Walk 1 will also be required. C hedge, going uphill and then through a gate on the left. St Just-in-Roseland Church- Follow the path through a gate by a finger post and down Follow Walk 1 until the path forks in the field A . At this a lane. The lane meets another on the right but continue C point take the lower path. Continue along the well used St Mawes ahead between the boatyard buildings and St Just Creek. path, over stiles and through gates for about a mile, keeping 5 miles, 3 hours, one moderate climb C At the end of the boatyard sheds, by the dinghy park, the water on your left. This section can be muddy after rain Start and finish at St Mawes Car Park follow the footpath on the right above the beach. This is and use by animals. shaded so can be muddy at times. This path leads through a gate into St Just Churchyard. Just after leaving the junction of walk 1, the ground on the 1 left was the site of the White House B a public house of C D P St Just-in-Roseland Church and churchyard with its years ago Ð there are no remains to see or ale to drink WC subtropical gardens must be explored. today! Walking here is so peaceful but it could have been so ST JUST CREEK different. There were several attempts in the late 19th and E early 20th centuries to construct a railway from St Stephen- in-Brannel (on the main Paddington to line) to St Just-in-Roseland, to serve a docks complex, on this side of the river, stretching from Turnaware Point nearly to

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St Just Creek 1923. Tregorland, on the hill, once a working farm but now a holiday home. See Lower Tregorland nestling in the cleft. The view is very much the same today but the stone wall walk route on the right is now hidden behind a wooden wall. Front Cover Image St.Mawes One Design class yachts (Image courtesy of Ralph and Lesley German) other paths (image courtesy of Miles Carden) and roads

St Mawes Castle. Dredging would enable ships of all sizes WC Outside the north wall of St Just Church, overlooking to berth and sail at any state of the tide. The numerous 1 Church Pool there is a fine wooden bench with a wharfs, dry docks and warehouses would add to the facility. START silhouette of a floatplane carved into the seat back and Ocean Liners were the main target with easy and quick rail the dedication: "In memory of William G Hosie who died access to and from London. All schemes came, thankfully, on 25th May 1987, whilst flying the S5 Seaplane from St to nothing. Just-in-Roseland". This in fact was a replica of the Supermarine S5 floatplane, winner of the Schneider HMS Ganges moored in the St Just Pool between 1866 and Trophy in 1927 which was followed by wins of S6 and 1899 as a quarantine ship. S6B in subsequent years, resulting in Britain being the outright winner of the Trophy. The technical, aerodynamic St Just Creek is home to the Oystercatcher, Curlew, and engine developments of these seaplanes were P Z point of cafe/shop pub/hotel WC public toilets Redshank, Egret, Heron and a selection of gulls. interest incorporated into a design which became the Spitfire and mentioned the Merlin engine of the Second World War. D in text or a photo Cdirections 1look around Pnature notes