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Hit the Coast

Early prototype

Run the whole thing, a bit at a time

The Cornish coast path broken into 45 point-to-point segments — about 295 miles from the Devon border at Marsland Mouth, round Land’s End, to the Tamar. Mostly half days, a few full ones. Tick them off as you run them.

Your coast

0 / 294.5

miles of the Cornish coast path, across 0 of 45 segments

Marsland Mouth to Cremyll, via Land’s EndRunLeft to run

Half days are up to 7.5 miles. Two adjacent segments in one session is a full day out.

North Cornwall

0 / 52 miles

  • Full daySegment info · 1 tip →

    The Cornish half of the official Hartland Quay to Bude stage. Remote, relentless, and left whole because there is no sensible way off it in the middle.

    10 mi

    approx

  • Full daySegment info · 1 tip →

    Big cliffs, and High Cliff — the highest point on the Cornish coast.

    10 mi

  • Half daySegment info · 1 tip →part of Crackington Haven to Tintagel

    7 mi

    approx

  • Half daySegment info · 1 tip →part of Crackington Haven to Tintagel

    Harbour, car park and buses at Boscastle.

    4 mi

    approx

  • Full daySegment info · 1 tip →

    9 mi

  • Half daySegment info · 1 tip →part of Port Isaac to Padstow

    7 mi

    approx

  • Half daySegment info · 1 tip →part of Port Isaac to Padstow

    Ends with the Rock to Padstow ferry — check the timetable and the tide.

    5 mi

    approx

The Atlantic Coast

0 / 65.5 miles

West Penwith

0 / 44 miles

Mount’s Bay & the Lizard

0 / 48 miles

The Fal & the Roseland

0 / 36 miles

South East Cornwall

0 / 49 miles

Tips beat ratings

Every segment has its own page, and the useful thing on it is the tips — where to park, which crossing works at which tide, what the ground is actually like. One good tip helps everyone who reads it. A single rating helps nobody until there are fifty of them, which is why tips are here now and ratings are waiting for accounts.

If you have run a segment, you know something the next person does not. Open its page and send it over — every tip is read by a person before it goes up.

Where the segments come from

The backbone is the South West Coast Path Association’s own stage list for the National Trail, trimmed to the Cornish portion. Their stages are walking days of nine to fourteen miles. Most are split once more, at a real intermediate place with parking and usually a bus, to give something you can run in a morning.

The ones left whole are left whole for a reason — the remote stretch down from the Devon border has no sensible way off it in the middle, and the Helford crossing depends on a seasonal ferry. That is where the mixture of half days and full days comes from: the ground decided it, not us.

Anything marked approx is our estimate of where a stage divides. Each pair still adds up to the Association’s published distance, so the totals stay honest even where the split is a judgement call. Once we have the real route geometry, those become exact.

Why there are no times

Most of this coast is unfenced cliff path. A fastest-time board on ground like that rewards running it hard in bad light and bad weather, which is the opposite of what we want this site to encourage. If timing arrives, it will be on a small set of genuinely safe segments — hard surfaces, no cliff edge, nothing tidal — chosen one at a time by people who know the ground.

Covering the whole coast is the interesting challenge anyway. It takes most people years.

Coming next, roughly in this order

  • The rest of England, region by region — 8 to go, Devon and the Jurassic Coast first.
  • Accounts, so your progress follows you between your phone and your laptop.
  • Friends — see what the people you run with have covered, and how much your lot have done between you.
  • Ratings and reviews on each segment, once there are enough people for a rating to mean anything.
  • GPX upload, so a segment can be marked verified rather than just ticked.
  • Leaderboards by distance covered and regions completed. Never by speed.

Want an account, and your friends on here? Put your name down — it is the only way we will know it is worth building, and you get first go at it.