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Media and Press Information

Journalists

If you are producing an article about any aspect of the Coast Path, we are keen to help and hopefully make your job easier.

Country Walking Magazine

We want to ensure the news gets out that there are walks along South West Coast Path that can be enjoyed by people no matter what their interest or level of fitness – from a short stroll out to a stunning viewpoint to the challenge of completing the entire 630 miles.

As you can see from this website, whether it’s wildlife along the coast or literary trails that follow in the footsteps of your favourite author, we have a huge variety of themed walks to choose from. as well as varying levels of difficulty – from easy-going walks that are suitable for wheelchair users to more demanding, strenuous walks on uneven ground.

To help your quest for information, we can provide you with ready written content, images, facts and figures, and set up interviews with local experts on subjects ranging from maritime history to geology. We are also working closely with tourism bodies and PR agencies, and so are able to help facilitate selected media visits.

As background, please download our editorial guidelines, which provide key facts and figures about the path with some generic copy that's free to use.

If you would like to find out more or have any queries at all, please contact our Communications and Project Officer, Alex Green or call her on 01392 382683.

Our Image Library

Bolberry Down looking towards Soar Mill Cove, South Devon. Photographer Andy Milsom

As you can see from this website, we have thousands of high quality photographs covering almost the entire South West Coast Path. Our photo library is organised and managed by Allan Ginman, the team’s Administrative Support Officer.

As well as on this site, most of the photos can also be viewed on the South West Coast Path Flickr pages, where  to make it easier to search, they have been organised into collections either covering specific sections along the coast path or by themes such as wildlife, heritage, landscape or people.

We are happy to supply high resolution versions of these images for use by third parties, providing:

  • the photographer is credited,
  • the accompanying article or the image caption is directly linked to the South West Coast Path.

To request to use any of these pictures please contact Allan by email or call 01392 383560.

 

Keeping up to date with Coast Path news

If you would like to be kept informed of what is happening on and around the path, and sent all our press releases, please email Alex Green, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

Latest News

  • Coast Path Motographer of the Year 2013 competition

    The South West Coast Path team is encouraging budding mobile phone photographers of all ages to capture a moment in time on the Coast Path as part of its Coast Path Motographer of the Year 2013 competition.

  • New record set for completing the Coast Path!

    A new record has been set for the fastest completion of the South West Coast Path! Contours Walking Holidays' Managing Director, Mark Townsend and fellow runner, Julie Gardener, completed the full South West Coast Path in a record time of 14 days, 14 hours and 44 minutes.

     

  • Great South West Walk exceeds half a million!

    The South West Coast Path Association’s Great South West Walk came to a grand finale on Tuesday 7th May, raising over £500,000 for 90 improvement projects to the entire South West Coast Path covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

  • Latest news on path diversions

    Following numerous cliff falls over the past few months, many sections of the Coast Path have been diverted. Click for details of route changes.

  • Cliff fall near Lulworth Cove

    Following the landslide at St. Oswald’s Bay between Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door on the morning of 30 April 2013, diversionary routes have been put in place by Dorset County Council and the Lulworth Estate, allowing the South West Coast Path to remain fully open and safe for visitors to this area. 

  • New slate waymarkers guide the way for Cornish walkers

    The sand dunes of west Cornwall attract thousands of local walkers and tourists every year who will now benefit from new slate waymarkers to guide the way along the South West Coast Path.

  • Five top family walks for summer

    Why not get out and about this summer and combine a family walk on the South West Coast Path with a host of other old-fashioned childhood pleasures, from crabbing in rockpools and exploring hidden coves, to following in the footsteps of giants.

  • Great South West Walk kicks off

    The Great South West Walk is underway - but still time to join up and help make the Coast Path even better.

  • Jurassic Coast Gateway nearing completion

    Exmouth is taking pride of place at the Western end of the Jurassic Coast as finishing touches are applied at the Jurassic Coast Gateway.

    The project will be completed in time for the Easter holidays, and will highlight its status as the oldest part of the World Heritage Site.

  • South West Coast Path To Receive £250,000

    The South West Coast Path Association is delighted to announce that it has secured £250,000 in funding for improvement projects around the entire South West Coast Path, before their fundraising event has even taken place.

Tweets

  • Enter our great new mobile phone competition to be in with a chance of winning an ipad mini http://t.co/AiQAX9ivqS #MOTY2013
  • New Coast Path record set and all in aid of the Great South West Walk! #Love2Walk http://t.co/RJ5H5RjKWI
  • @forgottenpaths Crikey! You know what they say: quality not quantity!
  • @forgottenpaths No, as many as you like! #MOTY2013
  • @viperjimh Hope you're going to enter! #MOTY2013
  • @laini Beautiful stretch - you got there in the end!
  • @sunleypants fantastic - love the seals pic. Perhaps you might like to enter our competition as you go http://t.co/MXnnW7yMoW
  • @endtoendtrail Good luck - think the forecast is cheering up for next week!

Facebook

  • Sometimes you just get lucky when walking along the Coast Path! http://www.flickr.com/photos/worthingwanderer/8745964259/
  • #MOTY2013 Bedruthan at sunset - iphone4
  • Rusey Cliff, near Crackington and the start of a hard slog if you're walking north!
  • If you guys have any influence any chance of getting the council to put some "danger, beware walkers" or something on the approach lanes from Hope Cove and from South Milton Beach as the coast path is closed. Cars can just about get around if you tuck in to the hedge but when a oil tanker came along, your stumped!!
  • The team at Contours Walking Holidays are delighted to announce that Managing Director, Mark Townsend and fellow runner, Julie Gardener, have completed the full South West Coast Path in a record time of 14 days, 14 hours and 44 minutes. We believe that this is the fastest that the trail has ever been completed! All money raised from the event will be donated to the South West Coast Path Association in support of the Great South West Walk. For more information, visit:http://www.contours.co.uk/general/cfc-contours-south-west-run.php or to make a donation, visit: http://www.justgiving.com/ContoursWalkingHolidays-SouthWestRun
  • #MOTY2013