The Camel Trail Code of Conduct Walkers have right of way The Trail has many different users including older people & people with mobility problems who find the level surface suitable for their use. THE CAMEL TRAIL is managed through a Please keep your dogs Partnership involving the County, District, Town and under close control Parish Councils through whose area the Trail passes. Dogs that leave the Trail can cause damage to adjoining private land, The Partnership also includes the Chambers of the river & its wildlife. Commerce of Padstow, Wadebridge and Bodmin, the Cyclists, please keep your Padstow Harbour Commissioners, English Nature, The speed down Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission. High speed makes it harder to avoid other users & thus causes accidents. Try to warn people of your approach. Day to day management is undertaken by the County and Horse riders, please keep to a walking pace District Councils, Tel: (01208) This reduces damage to the 893333 surface & the likelihood of an The Camel Trail is a 17 mile recreational route accident involving other users. If you have a query, wish to report a problem on the Trail or available for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. It is require other information on Please clean up after your flat and is mostly suitable for disabled access. dog & do not drop litter cycling in Cornwall, please phone Litter is unsightly, takes years to bio- the HELP LINE: (01872) 222000 degrade & can be very dangerous. A Dog faeces are a particular nuisance. Note: Mobile phone reception on the Camel Trail is variable. Code of Conduct Please use the Trail safely for Cyclists are advised to wear a safety 5 Take extra care where the Trail Camel Trail Users helmet & to carry a puncture repair crosses public roads! kit. Cycling with your dog on or off is also displayed in this leaflet. a lead is very dangerous. 5 When in the towns, please park your bike considerately. Please respect the privacy of adjoining Please follow this code. properties & landowners 5 All hire bikes must display a license disc. There is no public access to any adjoining land, or to Please ensure yours does. By doing so you will ensure that you, and all other users, get the river, except on signed paths. the most out of a trip on this wonderful and popular Trail. Please be considerate to all other users of the Trail Published by Inconsiderate behaviour whilst using the Trail can The Camel Trail Partnership spoil people's enjoyment of it. Designs by Ginny Lewis, Pelican Studio 01208 873327 & Heulyn Lewis (Coast & Countryside Service) The Camel Trail is a 17 mile traffic free route based on an historic railway track. The Padstow to Wadebridge line was opened in 1899 providing access from Waterloo via Okehampton and Launceston, but the section from Wadebridge to Poley's Bridge is one of the oldest in the world and was opened in 1834. Initially it was intended to bring sea sand from the estuary to farms inland. Bodmin through to Wadebridge was connected to the mainline system and operated until 1967, whilst the line between Bodmin and Poley's Bridge, which was only ever used for freight, closed in 1984. DISTANCES: Padstow to Wadebridge.... 5 miles Wadebridge to Bodmin.... 5.8 miles Bodmin to Poley’s Bridge.... 6.5 miles incredible Coastline wonderful Woods magnificent Moors The Camel Trail runs to Padstow, still From Wadebridge to Poley's Bridge, the route The Trail skirts Bodmin Moor, a superb granite landscape some distance from the sea. However, leaving passes through some magnificent woodland. with typical features such as tors, bogs, commons and your bike secured in the town, you can follow the Much is looked after by the Forestry streams. Easily accessed, are attractive villages like coast path beyond Padstow to Stepper Point, from Commission, including mixed woodland Blisland, which has a bucolic charm epitomised by the where magnificent views can be enjoyed. The coast managed on a long term basis. Other woods beautiful church path continues around the headland and joins contain native trees such as oak, ash and near the village St Tudy St Breward another path leading back to Padstow. beech with an understory of hazel, holly or (2 miles from Trail) (2 miles from Trail) green. PADSTOW Wenfordbridge i A leaflet on this walk is available spindle, also seen in the luxurious hedgerows Pottery St. Breward grew Prideaux Place Ferry ROCK from the T.I.C. in Padstow. on each side of the Trail. Access into some of Blisland from the granite (1 mile from Trail) P the woods is allowed. P (1 mile from Trail) quarrying industry CAMEL Poley’s Bridge P Merry which left a legacy Padstow ESTUARY Meeting of solidly built is one of the most St Mabyn Tresarrett (2 miles from Trail) cottages and small, attractive seaside Old Town Old Slate Cove Shell granite bounded fields. towns in Cornwall, Pinkson Quarry Wood Little Petherick Creek Tredethy lying hidden, up the Creek P EGLOSHAYLE P Pencarrow House (2 miles from Trail) Bodmin Camel Estuary, away from the harsh Atlantic. Once the fourth WADEBRIDGE P Hellandbridge was founded in 530 AD by St Petroc most important port in the country, today Padstow’s economy relies i A389 and St Guron. The town’s name comes from heavily on the tourist trade. Situated at one end of the Camel Trail, it is P B3266 ’Bod Meneghi’ meaning ‘dwelling of the monks’. a gateway to some superb estuary and clifftop walks. The local T.I.C. is Pendavey Bodmin was an administrative centre, and the County full of information about the area’s attractions, including Prideaux Place, Assize Courts now house the T.I.C., visitor centre, ‘Murder on one of the country's most beautiful Elizabethan mansions. Gaff Wood the Moor’, a re-creation of an infamous C19th murder trial, Wadebridge and Court no. 2 theatre space. Bodmin has a wide range of the Camel Estuary was a pivotal settlement in North Cornwall, Polbrock attractions including a steam railway, old Gaol and town is a birdwatchers’ paradise. From Wadebridge to providing the first crossing of the River Camel. Grogley Halt museum. Lanhydrock House (N.T.) and the famous Eden Reputedly the much altered medieval bridge Padstow there are wonderful views of creeks, Nanstallon HaltBoscarne Project can be reached by linking to sandbanks and rocky shores. Wintering wildfowl was built upon foundations of large sacks of Gaol the Cornish Way Cycle Route. include wigeon, long tailed duck and goldeneye. wool. Now Wadebridge is a bustling rural town P P Dunmere Divers, grebe and many waders can also be seen. with a wide range of shops and is the ‘centre’ i A389 Nanstallon Spring and autumn bring many migrants to the for accessing the Camel Trail. It has a good BODMIN estuary, while in summer it plays host to heron, little T.I.C. and information on local wildlife egret, cormorant, oystercatcher and many gulls. sightings are often posted nearby. Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway Camel Cafe Pub Tourist Cycle Hire & KEY: Trail P Parking Toilets Shop i Information Bike Park Road Crossing! Attraction.