Drive to the car park just outside Cremyll: It's situated
on the left-hand side of the road as you approach the village,
after driving past several car park signs on the right-hand side.
Walk to the rear left-hand side of the car park and you'll see
a path through the hedge. Go through and turn to the right; follow
past a few houses, toilets are on the right, just before the
road. When you get to the road, turn right and you'll see the
gates of Edgecumbe in front of you. Through the gates and turn
left towards the small gatehouse; while here, look to your right
and you'll see Edgecumbe House at the top of the hill with its
wide avenue of trees giving a very stately ambience. Passing
through the gatehouse, keep to the left around "The Orangery"
with its ornamental garden of statues and fountain and you'll
arrive at the sea-wall overlooking Plymouth.
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Follow the path along, past the Battery, then through a small
gate and onwards. You'll see the low wall on the left leading
to a small (rocky) beach, a miniature Greek temple on the right,
followed by a slight rise leading to a delightful lake in a very
nice woodland setting. After this, the path goes uphill much
more, becoming quite steep for a short distance, before coming
to a gate leading to an open space with a Folly (in the shape
of a ruined church) on top of the hill. The path skirts the bottom
of this hill and goes into the woods, then divides; it's probably
best to keep to the upward path, although they meet later anyway.
You then walk past the Lodge known as "Lady Emma's Cottage"
before the path starts to go uphill more (not too steep, though),
then a zig-zag to reach one of the drives of the Estate. Turn
left, in front is an archway over the path; very picturesque,
I thought. After a while, the path divides: Keep to the left
- downhill, then soon you pass through a gate and out of the
Estate.
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The path downhill is very pleasant, with open space on the
right; at the bottom is a gate leading to a small metalled road:
Walk to the right for a few metres, turning to the left opposite
a pleasant-looking house. Now the path is uphill, but not steep;
at the top it's a very nice level walk with distant views of
Kingsand and Cawsand in front. Eventually, you have a long path
through open grassland to a gate, then you're in Kingsand. After
the gate, look to the left and you'll see the coastpath sign:
follow downhill, to a crossroads. You can turn left or straight
on: If you go straight on, turn left at the main road (a very
narrow one!) and you'll end up by the angling shop opposite the
Rising Sun pub. Keep walking up the hill beside the pub, then
after you reach the top you'll start to go down towards Cawsand
with the beach on your left. Keep straight on, past a small war
memorial on your right; in front, the road bears to the right,
the coastpath is on the left. Usually the walk from Cremyll is
very popular, but you'll find that most people just walk to Kingsand
or Cawsand: After this point it gets a lot quieter.
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Follow the path upwards out of the village, past the back
of a few properties; further on another group of houses. Keep
following the path, eventually joining a narrow metalled road
through lovely woodland: In Spring, these woods must be a riot
of colour; they seem to be full of bluebells, unfortunately,
we were here too early to see them. After a while, the road leaves
the trees and you're out in the open at Penlee Point. Sit on
a seat and admire the view of Rame Head.
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Continuing on, follow the road for a short while until the
road bears to the right, and you'll see the coastpath sign straight
in front. After a while, there's a signpost to the right to a
car park, then a little later, again to the right to Rame Church;
keep straight on, firstly across a broad swathe of grass, then
along a wide ride until you get to a solitary footpath sign.
Don't go straight on, you'll fall over the cliff! Either take
time out to walk up to the chapel at the top of the headland,
or turn right and walk up the large field towards the Coastguard
station and then into the car park.
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