Distance: 6m (9.5km)
Ascent: 564 metres
Start/finish: St Anthony Head, TR2 5HA

Take the track to the gun emplacements on the headland and turn L onto the South West Coast Path. Follow this around Zone Point and along the coast to Towan Beach (2.4 miles/3.8km). Turn L inland then R onto the road, after a short distance turn L off the road and across a footbridge. Turn R after the bridge onto a footpath along Porth Creek and south along the Percuil River estuary to the road at St Anthony (4.2 miles/6.8km). Turn R past the church and along the creekside track, over a hill then down to the coast of St Mawes Harbour, turn L onto the coast path around Carricknath Point to the lighthouse at St Anthony Head. Join the signed and surfaced path uphill back to the car park.

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