The inland return to Perranuthnoe village and its church takes you through a landscape of small stone-walled fields that are typical of this part of the south coast of Penwith.

At the end of the beach car park cross to the opposite side of the road and go over two stone stiles on to the South West Coast Path. Follow the Coast Path until it joins a track where the path forks. Take the right fork past the National Trust sign for Trenow Cove and then proceed through a gap in the stone hedge.

Continue until you see the large stone outcrop at Venton Farm, and then take the well-worn path branching to the right, leading inland. It follows the side of the field before entering a grassy, walled lane. At a wooden waymark post, turn right and follow the grass track to Trenow Farm. Here you go through a pair of kissing gates and straight across the next field, which is usually planted with vegetables. The farmer always leaves the path clear for the public.

You then pass over a well-worn old granite ‘coffin’ stile, a design common in West Cornwall. Proceed up the small hill and you will pass some old mined ‘burrows’ (waste tips). The area around Perranuthnnoe was extensively mined in the 19th century and there is evidence of this activity throughout the landscape.

The path now enters a farm track that you follow past two newly built houses. Just beyond the second of them, turn right down a grassy walled lane to Perranuthnoe Church. From the Church proceed through the streets of the village back to the car park at the beach.

For a more energetic walk, instead of turning inland at Venton Farm to return to Perranuthnoe, you can continue on to explore historic Marazion.