30. Leg 8 - SW Coastal Path 30: Botallack to Land's End

27 August 2019  

After a very long stretch from St.Ives to Botallack the day before, this walk was significantly shorter and easier. We (Sally) managed a dip in the sea before completing the short distance to Land's End and a bus back to the campsite.

1. The route.

2. The ruined engine houses of Botallack, once used for extracting copper and tin, perch on the cliffs and the tunnels even extend under the sea.

3. Kendijack Castle and and Arsenic Works: this historic headland is the site of an Iron Age fortification and a Bronze Age cairn circle, as well as being another important mining site.

4. View to Cape Cornwall and The Brisons.

5. The path heads up the valley towards Kendijack Farm before returning to the coastline.

6. Cape Cornwall and the tiny Priest’s Cove: the cape is owned by the National Trust and was once thought to be the most westerly point in England. It is the only cape in England and is the point at which the Atlantic currents split and flow south up the English Channel or north into the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea.

7. Carn Gluze: a Bronze Age burial chamber with two concentric inner walls. It faces west towards the setting sun.

8. Ballowall Barrow

9. Sally bridge Porth Nanven.

10. Porth Nanven: a rocky beach of geological and scientific interest due to the wave-cut platforms in the cliff and extraordinary large, round stones. It is sometimes called the ‘dinosaur egg’ beach and is now legally protected by the National Trust.

11. View back to Cape Cornwall from Gribba Point.

12. View to Longships off Land's End.

13. Boscregan. View to Land's End.

14. Julian Boscregan view to The Brisons

15. Gazick

16. Well, we've had Sally's Bottom ... now here's Nanjulian!

17. Maen Dower

18. Gurland Cliff

19. Whitesand Bay from Escalls Cliff and Julian on Whitesand Bay.

20. Julian having probably one of the worst pasties we've had on the whole walk at Sennen Harbour. Also the worst cappuccino!!

21. Sally swimming in Sennen Harbour.

22. Sennen Harbour

​23. Mayon Cliff and view to Longships

24. Land's End!

 25. We caught the bus back to the campsite and had a little kip! Then via St. Just for fish and chips which we ate at Priest's Cove, Cape Cornwall watching the sun set over Land's End!