Top 10 Walks from the Grey Roofs
You are, again, spoiled for choice, but these are our favourites.
1. Perrancoombe to the Beach
Stroll down the Coombe
2. Over the Cliffs to Perranporth
Leave the house by the back gate, take the footpath to your right and follow the path. Cross the road and then bear right and follow the footpath, through a gate and alongside a stone wall, joining up with the South West Coastal path and dropping down into the town.
3. Perranporth to Holywell Bay
Walk all the way to the far end of the beach (3 Miles). If its high tide, you can walk over the cliffs. At the end of the beach take the footpath up the cliff and follow the path around the headlands until you reach Holywell Bay. Return the same way or walk through a Caravan Park and fields before joining the road, turning right and walking back via Mount (check the route on a map). About 10 Miles round trip.
4. Trevaunance Cove
Leave the house by the back gate, turn right and take the footpath up the valley. Cross the road and walk forward until you reach the coastal path, turn left. Walk along the cliffs (keep dogs on leads), pass the airfield and WW2 defences and take the steep path down into Trevellas Porth. At ow tide, you can scramble across the rocks to Trevaunance – strenuous and challenging. Otherwise and at high tide, cross the bridge and take the path up the other side of the valley past the mine workings, drop down into Trevaunance cove.
Return via the same route or take the road out of Trevellas and follow the road to a T Junction. Turn left and at the next junction turn right. When you meet the main road turn aright and first left to join the very far end of Perrancoombe, drop down into the valley and follow the road back to the house
5. St Agnes Beacon and Chapel Porth
Follow walk 4 to Trevaunance Cove. Walk uphill from the beach and turn right at the Driftwood Spars Pub and continue into St Agnes – keep going uphill following signs for the Beacon until you can’t get any higher. From the Beacon Trig point, walk south west downs the paths to Chapel Porth. Take the South West Coastal Path back to Trevaunance Cove passing Wheal Coates. Return via the Coastal path or Inland Walk 4.
6. Bolingey
Walk out of the side gate, cross the road and take the footpath on the right … this will take you up the side of the coombe to Liskey Hill. When you meet the road turn left and then immediately right onto Bolingey Road. Follow the road until you meet a T junction. Turn left, pass under the railway bridge and then turn left following the path down past the Fire Station and into Perranporth.
7. Perrancoombe and Penwatha Coombe
Leave the house, turn right and walk up the coombe, staying left and to the main road when the road forks. The road rises very steely to the main road where you cross diagonally to follow the minor road into Penwatha Coombe. Follow the road into Bolingey and turn left after the railway bridge and follow the road back to Perranporth.
8. Perrancoombe, woods and back past the Alpacas
Disclaimer: the Alpacas might not be there!
Turn right out of the house and walk up the coombe. when the road bends left and then narrows, look for a narrow roadway on the right and then follow it over the stream. Wak along the road and uphill through the woods and keep straight on when the road finishes. Follow the ath round to the left (great Blackberries in late Summer) on the op of the Coombe. The Alpacas are on the left.
Follow the path through to the road in Trevellas. Turn left and then immediately right down the minor road to the airfield.
Follow the road until you can turn right at the end of the airfield. Follow the road for 100 yards and then go straight on to a footpath that brings you back to the coastal path.
9. St Piran's Oratory
A historic church lost in the sands. This path may be rough.
Walk through the town, left at the mini roundabout, follow the road and after the road entrance to the beach take the footpath up the hill towards the golf course. Follow the path to the top of the hill and rejoin the main road at the entrance to Penhale Sands. The main road bends right but to straight on following the minor road to Mount. When you meet a road on the take a footpath left across the hedgerow and into the sands (great spot for dogs). The paths are indistinct and muddled, but keep heading generally straight and you will come to the abandoned and ruined Oratory. Go straight forward to find a route to the beach – return via the beach, or over the cliffs at Penhale at ow tide.
10. Across the cliffs to Penhale Sands
Walk across the beach and up the cliff path beyond the Lifeguard hut. Follow the path over the cliffs and return via the beach or turning right and taking the path across the Golf Course back to town.