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The South West Coast Path is the spectacular 630-mile (1008-km) National Trail around the westmost tip of Britain. This volume features the 172-mile (277-km) section of the Path from Falmouth to Exmouth, a route which takes the walker past stunning clifftop scenery, fen-like estuary margins and isolated Cornish coves This is the complete, official guide for the long-distance walker or the weekend stroller. All you need is this one book. National Trail Guides are the official guidebooks to the fifteen National Trails in England and Wales and are published in association with Natural England, the official body charged with developing and maintaining the Trails.
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Brian Le Messurier worked for the National Trust producing publications about its coastal properties in Devon and Cornwall. He wrote the first-generation guide book to the South Devon Coast Path in 1980, and the updated National Trust Guides South West Coast Path: Falmouth to Exmouth.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I like walking with a decent map and the best things about this guide are the 1:25000 OS maps - much better than those in other guides available.
On the other hand there are far too many negatives. These don't include the lack of info on accommodation which you can get from other sources. But I too suspect the author hasn't done the full route - the roller coaster stretch from Mevagissey to Black Head is ignored while a rather lesser one on the way to Porthpean is described in detail. Some sections (the Roseland Peninsula) are covered in far greater detail than others that are of equal or greater potential interest (Plymouth and Dartmouth). There is no discernible rhyme or reason in the way the route is broken into individual sections. These vary massively in length and can start or end at quite random points - Wonwell, the start of Section 7, is about as remote a place as it is possible to get on this stretch of the walk and I can't see how anyone would start a day from there. The guide's structure is curious. There's not much info at the start about the path as a whole, but then a strange piece on Conserving the Coast and the National Trust pops up at the end of Section 1.
And of course like all National Trail Guides you need a big pocket to put it in. Altogether, not the best guide to take with you if you are walking this stretch of the Path.
On the other hand there are far too many negatives. These don't include the lack of info on accommodation which you can get from other sources. But I too suspect the author hasn't done the full route - the roller coaster stretch from Mevagissey to Black Head is ignored while a rather lesser one on the way to Porthpean is described in detail. Some sections (the Roseland Peninsula) are covered in far greater detail than others that are of equal or greater potential interest (Plymouth and Dartmouth). There is no discernible rhyme or reason in the way the route is broken into individual sections. These vary massively in length and can start or end at quite random points - Wonwell, the start of Section 7, is about as remote a place as it is possible to get on this stretch of the walk and I can't see how anyone would start a day from there. The guide's structure is curious. There's not much info at the start about the path as a whole, but then a strange piece on Conserving the Coast and the National Trust pops up at the end of Section 1.
And of course like all National Trail Guides you need a big pocket to put it in. Altogether, not the best guide to take with you if you are walking this stretch of the Path.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
South West Coast Path: Falmouth to Exmouth (National Trail Guides): Falmouth to Exmouth (National Trail Guides)
This is the second book I have used in this range. The first one was on the north Devon coast and I always had a sneaking feeling that the author had not actually walked the route. This book confirms it. Some of the descriptions are way of,missing out miles of difficult walking. There is no attempt at giving aguide to the difficulty of the routes or legth of time to walk them and so it is useless in planning your journey. You have to go to the path web site to work that out.You can make some big mistakes with this range as I did and set off on a 'very strenuous' section in Devon not knowing that. 12 hours later I got to Bideford, knackered! The official book I'm told is better but will not fit in your pocket.
This is the second book I have used in this range. The first one was on the north Devon coast and I always had a sneaking feeling that the author had not actually walked the route. This book confirms it. Some of the descriptions are way of,missing out miles of difficult walking. There is no attempt at giving aguide to the difficulty of the routes or legth of time to walk them and so it is useless in planning your journey. You have to go to the path web site to work that out.You can make some big mistakes with this range as I did and set off on a 'very strenuous' section in Devon not knowing that. 12 hours later I got to Bideford, knackered! The official book I'm told is better but will not fit in your pocket.
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