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Walk · Cornwall

Rock to Polzeath and St Enodoc

Rock
Padstow Rock Splatt Trebetherick Brea Hill N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
5.8MILES
2h 50mON FOOT
135mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 82% 18% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 64%Lane & track 18%Road with traffic 18%

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.

Starts at
Rock car park by the ferry slipway, at the end of Rock Road
Parking
Large pay-and-display at Rock beside the ferry; the Daymer Bay car park further north is smaller and fills first because of the beach
Directions to the start →

Just under six miles round the dunes, beaches and golf links of the Camel’s eastern shore, about two and three quarter hours and easy going apart from soft sand and the pull over Brea Hill. It starts at the Rock car park by the ferry slip, which is large but pay-and-display, and the Padstow ferry means you can arrive on foot from the other side. Stiles are all passable for a large dog and Rock and Daymer Bay take dogs the year round, which is unusual on this coast; the route crosses a working golf course where a lead is expected, and the low cliff at Trebetherick Point is unfenced.

THE SMALL PRINTPolzeath and Greenaway ban dogs 10am to 6pm from 15 May to 30 September under the Cornwall Council order. Rock and Daymer Bay are open to dogs all year. The route crosses St Enodoc golf course, where dogs must be on leads and give way to play.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
REGION · CORNWALL
GRID · 50.5348, -4.9186
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.IWALKCORNWALL.CO.UK/WALK/ROCK_TO_POLZEATH
Also in Rock
Daymer Bay
Beach DOGS WELCOME

Daymer Bay

Dogs allowed all year

Sheltered dune-backed sand inside the Camel estuary, shallow and calm compared with the surf beaches either side. It is not among the beaches covered by Cornwall Council's dogs-on-beaches order, so it takes dogs all year with no time restriction — the reason it fills with them in August. Brea Hill above it is grazed, so leads on the dunes.

Off-lead OK
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St Moritz Hotel

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Contemporary hotel and spa above Daymer Bay with a dedicated dog-friendly stay category alongside its rooms, suites and self-catering. Daymer Bay is a ten-minute walk down and carries no seasonal dog ban, so this is one of the few north-coast bases that works in August. Bring leads for the clifftop stretches of coast path and the livestock fields behind.

Livestock — leads on
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