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Ramblers Routes Ramblers Routes Britain’S Best Walks from the Experts Britain’S Best Walks from the Experts Southern England Ramblers Routes Ramblers Routes Britain’s best walks from the experts Britain’s best walks from the experts Southern England Southern England 06/02/2015 11:07 09 Isle of Portland, Dorset 10 Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall l Distance 14 km/9 miles l Time 4½hrs l Type Coast l Distance 25km/16 miles l Time 7½hrs l Type Coast NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL walk magazine spring 2015 spring magazine walk walk magazine spring 2015 spring magazine walk Plan your walk Plan your walk Dorchester l l l DORSET Poole Bude Weymouth CORNWALL l l Plymouth Bodmin l ISLE OF PORTLAND LIZARD POINT WHERE: Circular walk WHERE: Linear walk from round the Isle of Portland. Degibna, near Helston, PHOTOGRAPHY: FIONA BARLTROP PHOTOGRAPHY: START/END: New Ground to the Lizard. FIONA BARLTROP PHOTOGRAPHY: parking area above START: National Trust The Isle of Portland is unlike block of limestone, which has Cornwall’s wonderful coastline is The walk starts from the National Fortuneswell (SY690731). Degibna car park, south anywhere else in Dorset; or, for been heavily quarried over the a pleasure to walk at any time of Trust’s Penrose Estate alongside TERRAIN: Coastal cliff-top of Helston (SW653252). that matter, anywhere along the years, as you’ll see on this year but especially in the spring, Cornwall’s largest natural paths and tracks along the END: Lizard village – bus South West Coast Path, of which memorable circuit of the Isle. when it’s at its most colourful, freshwater lake, Loe Pool. well-signed England Coast stop (SW704125). it officially became a part in 2003. with the cliff edges fringed with Path National Trail. TERRAIN: Mostly grassy While not beautiful, it is rugged 1. START From the New Ground pink thrift and other wild flowers. 1. START Walk back out of the MAPS: OS Explorer OL15; cliff-top coastal path, with an and full of interest, with some parking area (SY690731), head east This glorious stretch of the Coast car park (SW653252) and turn R Landranger 194. initial stretch on lakeside impressive cliff scenery and along the green parallel to the Path along the western side of along a track. Soon afterwards, GETTING THERE: Frequent path and a final section on splendid views. Despite its name, road, keeping close to the wooden the Lizard Peninsula takes you turn L through a gap in the hedge bus service no 1 runs daily quiet country lane. it is, in fact, joined to the mainland fence to enjoy the views. You’ll to the British mainland’s most to follow a footpath, initially from Weymouth to Portland, MAPS: OS Explorer 103; by the shingle ridge of Chesil pass an information board about southerly point. Scenic gems across open fields. The path turns L with an additional open-top Landranger 203. Beach, which stretches northwest the Verne Local Nature Reserve. en route include picture-postcard then R (signed for Carminowe) and bus (501) in the summer. GETTING THERE: First Bus along the coast to West Bay. For Continue along the road towards Mullion Cove and beautiful continues down through the Trains from Weymouth link service no 2 from Penzance about half the beach’s length, it is the Verne Citadel, a huge fortress Kynance Cove, with dramatic cliff trees. Keep ahead when another with Dorchester and London to Falmouth goes via separated from the mainland by built by convicts in the 19th scenery all the way. The name path joins from the L. Just beyond (✆ 0871 200 2233, Helston (regular daily an area of saline water called the century to defend Portland Lizard, incidentally, has nothing is a fork. You could continue on www.travelinesw.com). services); First Bus service Fleet Lagoon. You’ll have a good Harbour. It occupies a commanding to do with the reptile. It’s most down to Carminowe Creek and EATING & DRINKING: Heights no 37 from Lizard to view of the beach and lagoon at position on the highest point of probably a corruption of the turn R, but it’s better to go Hotel (bar, bistro and coffee Redruth also stops at the start of the walk. Also in view Portland, protected by cliffs and Cornish ‘Lys Ardh’, meaning through the gate on the R, which shop), Portland (✆ 01305 Helston (regular daily is Portland Harbour, one of the surrounded by a great ditch (a ‘high court’. By pure coincidence gives access to the field. You’ll 821361, www.heightshotel. services). Mainline trains world’s largest man-made huge dry moat). The stone only, much of the peninsula is soon reach a long boardwalk, com); Fancy’s Family Farm, stop at Penzance and harbours, built between 1849 and removed from here was used for composed of a rock called which leads you across the creek. Portland (✆ 07810 485351, Falmouth (✆ 0871 200 2233, 1872 by convicts. It was a Royal the building of the Portland serpentine – long used for The footpath continues along the www.fancysfarm.co.uk); www.traveline.info). Navy base for many years until breakwater. From 1903, the citadel ornaments. The Lizard Peninsula is south side of Carminowe Creek, an Lobster Pot Restaurant, EATING & DRINKING: it was sold in 1996. In 2012, the was used as an infantry barracks also renowned as the birthplace of arm of Loe Pool, which is cut off Portland Bill (✆ 01305 820242, Mullion Cove Hotel harbour was used for the Olympic and became a prison in 1949. In modern communication, as it’s from the sea by Loe Bar – a broad www.lobsterpotrestaurant (✆ 01326 240328, www. and Paralympic Games sailing 2014, it was converted into an where Marconi undertook some of shingle bank. Originally, it was the portland.co.uk). mullion-cove.co.uk); Top ▲ ▲ ▼ immigration removal centre. his pioneering radio experiments. mouth of the River Cober. ▼ events. Portland itself is a massive 63-64 WALK46 RR SOUTHERN.indd 1 § 63-64 WALK46 RRSOUTHERN.rev1.indd 2 Ordnance Survey mapping ©Crown copyright 2015 Ordnance Survey. Media019/15 Ordnance Surveymapping©Crowncopyright2015Survey. Media019/15 Ordnance Surveymapping©Crowncopyright2015Survey. Continued... 1 Continued... House Inn, Lizard (✆ 01326 START SLEEPING: Heights Hotel 2 290974, www.thetophouse (as before) or there’s a wide Map not to scale. 1 lizard.co.uk); cafés at Poldhu Representation of range of B&Bs and hotels Beach, Mullion Cove, Kynance OS Landranger in Weymouth; self-catering START MAP 203 1:50,000 Cove and Lizard Point. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk options in the area include FINISH SLEEPING: Mullion Cove Hotel 2 Greenwood Grange cottages and Top House Inn (see (✆ 01305 268874, www. 3 above); Polurrian Bay Hotel greenwoodgrange.co.uk) and (✆ 01326 240421, www. Holcombe Valley Cottages polurrianhotel.com); other (✆ 01305 852817, www. B&Bs in Mullion and Lizard holcombe-cottages.co.uk). village (visit www. VISITOR INFORMATION: visitcornwall.com/ Heights Hotel, Yeates Road, accommodation). National Portland (as before); Trust cottages and bunkhouse Dorchester TIC, Antelope located at Penrose (✆ 0344 Walk (✆ 01305 267992, 4 335 1287, www.nationaltrust www.visit-dorset.com). cottages.co.uk). GUIDEBOOK: The South VISITOR INFORMATION: West Coast Path Guide, Penzance National Trust 3 revised and updated Visitor Centre, Station annually (£9.95, published Approach (✆ 01736 335530, by the South West Coast www.visitcornwall.com). Path Association, GUIDEBOOK: The South West www.swcp.org.uk). Coast Path Guide, revised and LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: updated annually (£9.95, South Dorset Ramblers published by the South West (✆ 01305 262839, www. Coast Path Association, southdorsetramblers.org.uk). www.swcp.org.uk). LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: West Cornwall (Penwith Map not to scale. & Kerrier) Ramblers 2. Follow the road as it bends R, Representation of passing Fancy’s Family Farm on 5 OS Landranger (✆ 01736 740542, www. FINISH MAP 194 1:50,000 ramblers.org.uk). your L. Continue along the rough www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk road beside the high security 4 fence on your L. Over to your R 2. When you reach Loe Bar, turn is the Verne High Angle Battery, L and follow the Coast Path from built c.1892 to house six guns, To download this route and hundreds of others, here on, keeping the sea on your whose purpose was to fire heavy visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes R. Note the memorial cross soon To download this route and hundreds of others, shells at a high angle up in the after you leave the beach. This visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes air over the cliffs and onto the 3. Turn sharp L downhill and, at the 5. The return leg along the west commemorates the loss of HMS decks of enemy ships. Keep bottom, turn R along the route of side of Portland provides fine, Anson, wrecked on Loe Bar in ahead along the track over open the old railway line. From the ruins airy, cliff-top walking with great 1807, when many men were you’ll come to the Marconi scenery (pictured on previous ground. Bear R as signed as you of Rufus Castle, steps lead down to views. It is straightforward drowned. It led to the invention monument on the cliffs. It was page). At Kynance Cove, you can approach a building, the Old Church Ope Cove (detour R to see enough, but there are a couple of the life-saving rocket line from Poldhu Point on 12 December cross the beach if the tide is out. Engine Shed, on the cliffs above the 13th-century church ruins). of short-signed diversions (through apparatus. Looking back, you can 1901 that Marconi sent the first the East Weare (information adjoining quarries) north of see Porthleven beyond Loe Bar. transatlantic radio signal. The 4.
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