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Kennack Sands to Cadgwith

Cadgwith
Cadgwith Poltesco N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
4.5MILES
2h 30mON FOOT
150mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 18%Road with traffic 20%

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
Kennack Sands car park, behind the eastern beach
Parking
Pay-and-display behind Kennack Sands, reasonably large with toilets and a seasonal cafe; it still fills on the hottest days
Directions to the start →

Four and a half miles of gentle serpentine coast between a wide sandy bay and a working fishing cove, two and a half hours with easy going by Lizard standards. Start at the Kennack Sands car park behind the beach, which is large for this coast and has a cafe in season, and return inland through Ruan Minor. Stiles are reported fine for dogs and the old serpentine works at Poltesco give shade and a stream; both Kennack Sands and Cadgwith Cove are inside the summer restriction, so time it for the morning or the evening in July and August.

THE SMALL PRINTKennack Sands and Cadgwith Cove both ban dogs 10am to 6pm from 1 July to 31 August under the Cornwall Council order.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
Water bowls
REGION · CORNWALL
GRID · 49.9940, -5.1360
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.IWALKCORNWALL.CO.UK/WALK/KENNACK_SANDS_TO_CADGWITH
Also in Cadgwith
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Cadgwith Cove Inn

TR12 7JX
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Old smugglers' inn in a thatched fishing cove where the boats are still winched up the shingle. The inn describes itself as very dog friendly and it is the only real stop in the village. It has rooms above but publishes no dog policy for them, so ask when booking.

In the bar
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880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors 4 MI · LOOP
SOME LIMITS

Cadgwith to Lizard Point

Cadgwith
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4MILES
2:20TIME
150mCLIMB
82%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

Four miles round the most southerly point in Britain, two hours with 150 metres of climbing, taking in the Devil’s Frying Pan collapsed cave, the lighthouse and the old lifeboat slip at Polpeor. Start from the car park above Cadgwith, because the village is a thatched dead end with no room for cars, and walk out past Grade church. The going is easy for a dog and there is fresh water in the valleys, but the cliff path is unfenced with some long drops, and four of the coves on this stretch fall inside the July and August restriction.

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