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Photo - Bolt Head from Prawle. Photographer Jennifer Rowlandson, Tiverton.

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

  • Does anyone know how many miles it is from Lulworth cove to Kimmeridge when the ranges are closed and you don't have to divert from the South West coast path?
  • Yesterday Chris Timbrell and Dave Martin reached the halfway point of the Path. CLIC Sargent justgiving total on the way to £4,000, hoping to finish the walk 14 June, or thereabouts! http://www.justgiving.com/ChrisTimbrellandDavidMartin
  • 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!!