The walk starts at Wembury Beach which is a Marine Conservation Area and a great spot for rockpooling. You follow the path along a wide flat area which represents a former higher sea level with the old cliffline at the back. You will then reach HMS Cambridge, an ex Royal Navy Gunnery School, now turned back into fields owned by the National Trust. It is at this point you are the closest you can get to the Great Mew Stone. Also far far in the distance and with a good pair of binoculars, you may see the Eddystone Lighthouse on a good day.

As you walk around HMS Cambridge the path climbs slightly and takes you around to Heybrook Bay where you will find toilets and a cafe. As you continue up the road and around past the chalets that frame this part of the coast, the path descends to a pleasant beach and then climbs quite steeply up the other side.

Follow the path past some cottages, keeping to the right as the road diverges to the left. There are steps here which go up behind the cottages and round to the left. A little further on you cross a large footbridge over a cutting which was excavated to allow munitions and supplies to be transported to the fort above. Again the path ascends giving you a good view of the breakwater which was built to shelter Plymouth Sound from rough weather, and Fort Bovisand below. Now a diving school, it is part of the ring of coastal forts built to defend Plymouth's naval base in the 1860s and 70s.

Further on the path passes through woodland and descends a flight of wooden steps. A blue cast iron sign marks one end of Plymouth's Waterfront Walkway and you are invited to wipe your feet on the iron door mat as you cross the boundary into Plymouth. (The Waterfront Walkway is another walk you will find described on this website, available as a written description and a podcast.)

The path now leads down past the Jennycliff cafe with the knitted breakfast sign which marks cafes along the whole of the Waterfront Walkway. The path then gently leads back to Mount Batten Point passing some expensive-looking crescents of town houses and some large hangers with shops and cafes.