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Landscape
Celtic Cornwall
Ancient Sites
Where to Go
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Caerhays to Dodman Point - 3.0 milesOS Explorer 105: grid reference SW975414 to SX003393 View Map Walk Duration 1 Hour 50 minutes Start the walk at the large car park behind Porthluney Beach - Grid ref. SW975414. Turn your back to the sea and walk to the road so that you are opposite the castle gatehouse. Our route now followed Walk 4 in Bob Acton's excellent guidebook From the Roseland to St. Austell Bay: 18 Round Walks from Portscatho to Par. Bear right for a few metres before following the sign through the kissing gate into a field. Keep to the right of the field as you climb to a stile. Look ahead for a standing stone and head for it diagonally across the field. Cross another stile into woodland and climb several steps to emerge above Lambsowden Cove on the half-hour. The headland in front of you is Greeb Point, with the imposing Dodman Point behind.
Cross two big stiles and pass through a kissing gate before dropping down steps to the NT owned Lambsowden Cove. Cross a small stream by the footbridge and climb, steeply in places, up to the crest of Greeb Point. The path now levels off as it makes its way towards a small sandy beach at the foot of the Dodman - this is Hemmick Beach. Pass an outcrop of quartz-rich quartzite rock as you pass Clitter's Rock, the path remaining quite level as it soon enters a field just above the beach. Arrive at Hemmick just after the hour mark, passing the wooden signpost indicating that you are 2 miles from Caerhays. Drop almost to sea level, passing behind the beach to pick up a tarmac road. Proceed up the road for a few metres before bearing right to enter the grassy track that climbs sharply up Dodman Point. Climb up, steeply at first, to Gell Point. Pass through a kissing gate heeding the notice about the six or so Shetland ponies likely to be grazing here. Follow the track as it wends downhill slightly before climbing up to High Point making use of any level ground to catch your breath. Zig-zag your way up to the cross passing a wooden signpost en route: 'Hemmick ¾m Dodman ¼m'. Climb the stile as the path widens and begins to ease slightly. Arrive at the summit roughly 2 hours into you walk - grid reference SX003393. Rest awhile at the small flat area around the granite cross, erected in 1896. Use the viewpoint of the 114m (375 feet) headland to look back to the Roseland and West Cornwall and ahead to Fowey, Looe and maybe even Rame Head near Plymouth.
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