Walk · Cornwall

Gribbin Head and the Daymark

Fowey

3.6MILES

2h 10mON FOOT

170mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 68%Lane & track 22%Road with traffic 10%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

National Trust field car park at Menabilly Barton, signed off the Fowey to Par road

Parking

National Trust car park at Menabilly Barton, free to members, grass surface and a long single-track lane in; it fills on summer weekends and there is no overflow

Directions to the start →

Three and a half miles round the Gribbin headland to the red and white daymark tower, about two and a quarter hours with 170 metres of climbing and views the length of St Austell Bay. Start from the National Trust car park at Menabilly Barton, a field car park up a narrow lane off the Fowey to Par road, and walk down past the lakes to Polridmouth. No stiles anywhere on the route, Polridmouth beach takes dogs all year and the lake behind it is the swim, but the headland is grazed and the coast path either side of the daymark runs along an unfenced edge with a long drop.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Water bowls

Livestock — leads on

REGION · CORNWALL

GRID · 50.3350, -4.6790

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