South West Coast Path |
| • 630 miles from Minehead to Poole |
In 1997 we shouldered our rucksacks for the first time and set off on a journey into the unknown. We'd walked the North Norfolk Coast Path, but that was flat and easy. The South West was a different matter altogether. Each year has offered different challenges - severe valleys, meandering inland detours, driving rain, occasionally just finding the time to visit the south west was a challenge in itself. Each year we finish, look at each other, conclude that we need our heads examining - and immediately start planning the next year's walk.
We've divided this part of the site into sections for each year - click on the map below, or see the summaries further down the page. Some years have photo pages as well as text. For the launch of this site we have only completed the 2002 and 2003 sections and the 2004 preview - the rest will follow soon.
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• 2004 |
| An estuary-to-estuary walk from Falmouth to Plymouth,
taking in Fowey and Looe, is this year's plan. |
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• 2003 |
| The year we 'turned the corner' at Land's End and reached
the half-way point of the path near Porthallow. |
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• 2002 |
| A romp down the north Cornish coast from Padstow ran
into rough going and foul weather. |
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• 2001 |
| The foot and mouth outbreak closed the countryside,
so we managed just one stage this year. |
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• 2000 |
| A year in which we did only a short section - but it
was a good one, from Tintagel to Pt Isaac. |
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• 1999 |
| This was the year of the vicious river valleys - no
walker forgets the path near Hartland Point. |
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• 1998 |
| Good coastal walking and an inland detour took us from
Combe Martin to Clovelly via Barnstaple. |
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• 1997 |
| Our first year was a steep, painful but rewarding learning
curve that ended earlier than planned. |
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