The Great Outdoors Spring 2019

Always take a map and compass with you. ©Crown copyright 2019 Ordnance Survey. Media 058/17

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Harlyn car park
(charge)
GR: SW879754
From the car park, take the
road (R) over the bridge to the
village, turning R into Sandy Lane
opposite the post box.
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After no more than 100m,
turn L onto the footpath
Tr e v o s e H e a d
Cornwall ENGLAND
9.4km/5.8 miles/3-4 hours
Ascent 150m/490ft^9

THINGS KEEP POPPING

up out of the sand around

Trevose Head, and there’s

a lot of sand to emerge

from. In 1865, or it might

have been 1866, two men

digging a pond at the clif

edge near Harlyn achieved

what anyone digging a hole

secretly hopes for: they

found gold, in this case two

large prehistoric necklaces.

hey also uncovered some

pottery and other bits of

metal, which they chucked

in the sea.

In 1900, admittedly

with a little help from

archaeologists, a surprising

number of prehistoric

burials emerged from the

sand in the same village.

And they just keep coming;

the latest was found falling

from the clif at the back of

the beach in 2014.

(signed ‘Public Footpath’), crossing

the road to follow a short section

of ROW back to the road.

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Turn L to follow the road

through the golf course

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As you leave the golf course,

turn sharp R (signed ‘To the

coast path’), and follow a narrow

track downhill to the dunes.

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Depending on the tide,

turn R to take the beach or

dunes, soon locating the coast

path along the cliff top, deviating

L just past the awe-inspiring

Round Hole to visit the burial

mound on Dinas Head. Then

continue around Trevose Head

and Cataclews Point and back to

the start.

Gradient proile Metres above sea level

Tim Gent

inds history

underfoot

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