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The walk from Swanpool to Maenporth is a lovely little one, even on a cloudy day like this. One gloomy day in early 2019 Scottie and I took a walk along the coast path between the beaches. 

The path starts just on the right side of the beach, rising up to give wonderful views all the way up the coast to Swanpool, Gylly, Pendennis Castle and over onto St Mawes.

Swanpool

There are a whole bunch of little beaches scattered along the coastline, some harder to reach than others.

Soon the path comes to Sunny Cove and Newporth Head.

Swanpool

One of the small headlands is named Pennance or Stack Point. This once held a stack for Swanpool Mine, although this is long gone. On the waters edge are the remains of the entrance to an old sewage outlet on Pennance Point.

The walk ends at Maenporth beach, a wonderfully sheltered cove perfect for swimming and kayaking – there’s even a shipwreck just off the coast here.  

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]]> 1072 Maenporth Walk https://explorecornwall.org/maenporth-walk/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 11:55:39 +0000 http://explorecornwall.org/?p=204 A walk from Maenporth to the Helford river, coming back past St Mawnan church.

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Today, in view of the ‘heatwave’ I abandoned my school work and drove to Maenporth, a quaint little beach just down the line from Falmouth.

Maenporth

This is a really stunning stretch of Cornwall’s south coast, complete with views across to Falmouth and The Roseland, down the Helford and of tiny beaches. The coast path towards the Helford river is on the right side of the beach, just above the Life Guard building, crossing the bottom of some private fields.

Maenporth

All around the path was littered with spring flowers, with whole sways of snowdrops under the trees.

Snowdrops

Path down to Bream Cove. This is a small sheltered beach just off the footpath; while privately owned there are no visiting restrictions and the waters are typically flat and calm. 

Maenporth

Soon the path reached Rosemullion Head which gives fabulous views of the whole coastline and across Falmouth Bay. 

Eventually the path winds its way to the mouth of the Helford river. This has over 47kms of coastline, seven creeks and several houses/estates along its edges, Trevose house being the closest at this point. 

Helford

Across the river are the beaches at the bottom of Trebah and Glendurgan gardens, with the hamlet of Durgan hidden amongst the trees.

Gate

At the first beach you’ll reach a boathouse, take the path right just before this and follow the path across the field towards St Mawnan church. 

St Mawnan and St Stephen’s church was built in 1231 and has undergone several renovations since then.

Church

From here, take the path running alongside the graveyard which joins back up with the main coastpath back towards Maenporth.

Maenporth

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