Another walk straight from the doorstep is Polzeath to St Enodoc Church. At just under 4 miles, the circular walk takes you along the coast path past a number of small beaches with plenty of rockpools to explore at low tide. You’ll go past shipwrecks as well, across Daymer Bay then on to St Enodoc Church – the burial place of Sir John Betjeman. The final stretch loops inland across the fields back to Polzeath.

Boscastle and the Valency Valley walk explores the cliffs above Boscastle then heads inland across the wooded Valency Valley by the river. It is a four-mile walk that takes approx. two and a half hours to complete.

Tintagel, King Arthur and the slate coast is a five-mile circular walk via the cove at Trebarwith Strand and back along the cliff path past quarries and Tintagel Castle. 

Rough Tor and Brown Willy is a circular route that climbs to the summit of Rough Tor via the Holy Well, following the ridge Showery Tor with spectacular views to the North Cornish coast.  It then goes on to the top of Brown Willy – the highest point in Cornwall with panoramic views across to the China Clay hills at St Austell (known locally as the Cornish Alps.) The route takes you past cairns, stone circles and other remnants of ancient Neolithic civilization and also the Charlotte Dymond memorial which is steeped in the folklore of Bodmin Moor.

The Cornwall Wildlife Trust has numerous nature reserves throughout the county. They have information boards explaining more about the habitat and wildlife at each site. Hawkes Wood is the closest to us. It’s an oak woodland with two streams and a quarry and is an exceptional area for spotting woodland birds.