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Visit the Great
Gardens of Cornwall
while walking the UK's South West Coast Path
8 nights, 7 days
Total Distance:
63 miles
Min/max daily distance:
9/14 miles
Average Daily distance:
9 miles
Grading:
easy to strenuous
Features:
Trebah, Carwinion
Glendurgan, Lamorran
Trist, Caerhays
Pine Lodge
Lost Gardens of Heligan
You make your own way to Helford Passage. We can assist with coach transfers if necessary.
Car parking is available for the duration of the walk.
Spend the day visiting Trebah, Carwinion and Glendurgan. Trebah is a spectacular subtropical 26 acre ravine garden sweeping down to a secluded beach on the Helford Estuary. Carwinion Garden has 12 peaceful acres containing an outstanding collection of bamboo, camellias, hydrangeas, ferns, wild flowers and exotics. Glendurgan is a valley garden with many fine trees, rare exotic shrubs, magnolias, camellias and wild flowers.
The wooded path follows along the Helford River and there are occasional views of the estuary through the trees. You head out towards Rosemullion Head where you can see Falmouth and Pendennis Point in the distance. Pendennis Castle, and its counterpart at St Mawes, date from the mid-16th century.
You take the ferry from Falmouth to St Mawes where you visit the 4.5 acres of Lamorran House Gardens set out in an Italianate style with an extensive collection of subtropical plants. Another ferry takes you to Place and you walk the South West Coast Path to Portloe via Trist House, a 5 acre garden with terraces and rockeries.
You walk around Veryan Bay through the villages of West and East Portholland where there is an old limekiln on the beach. Caerhays has an informal woodland garden created by J C Williams who sponsored plant-hunting expeditions to China at the turn of the 19th century. National magnolia collection. Also camellias, rhododendrons and oaks.
Spend the whole day at the Lost Gardens of Heligan where there are over 200 acres of working Victorian gardens with magnificent complex of walled gardens, summerhouses, lakes, huge productive gardens and fruit houses. Overnight at Mevagissey.
9 miles strenuous
A pleasant day's walking along the coast to the 18th century port of Charlestown. The harbour is home to some fine old sailing ships and has been used as a location in many films. The 30 acres of Pine Lodge Gardens contain shrubs, herbaceous and water features, pinetum, arboretum, a lake with black swans and ducks and a Japanese garden.
A 4 mile inland walk takes you to The Eden Project. In the Humid Tropics Biome you can experience the sights, smells and sheer scale of the rainforest in the world's largest greenhouse. The Temperate Biome you experience the diversity of the Mediterranean. No matter what the season, the terraced gardens will be a riot of colour. Overnight in Charlestown.
| Other walks in Cornwall include: SWCP NE Cornwall SWCP NW Cornwall SWCP Land's End Circular SWCP SW Cornwall SWCP SE Cornwall Saints Way Copper Trail Great Gardens of Cornwall Isles of Scilly |
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What's included
in your UK walking holiday
to the gardens of Cornwall
- accommodation at high quality guest houses, inns or small hotels on a bed and breakfast basis
- room with en-suite or private bathroom, tea and coffee making facilities
- daily luggage transfer
- support should there be any problems on route
- detailed itineraries
Short walking breaks are also available, with 2 or 3 days walking. Just select the part of the coast path you want to walk.
The above distances are only a suggestion. If you would like to walk longer or shorter distances, we can arrange that too.
We pride ourselves in offering the widest choice of bespoke walking holidays on the South West Coast Path.
We have no minimum party size and do not cancel holidays due to minimum numbers.
Optional Extras
for your UK Walking Holiday
to the gardens of Cornwall
- upgrade to the region's most elegant, prestigious and famous hotels, where available
- transfers back to car or station
- parking facilities
- rest days
- inn to inn walks
3 nights from
8 nights from
£219
£479
All prices subject to change
By Car to Helford Passage where parking is available
By Train / Bus to Helford Passage
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Contact us for schedule and availability. Lines are open 9am to 9pm 7 days a week.  +44
(0)1837 880075or email us 2009 prices held for 2010 |
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