Date: Sunday 17th March 2013
Route: Circular walk from The Lizard Village
Distance: 6.5 miles
A quick visit to Cornwall - and after torrential rain and grey skies in London, it is a relief to find blue skies and sunshine on the most southerly part of Britain.
This is a favourite walk from the AA's 1001 Walks - a handy ring binder containing (as its name suggests!) 1001 Walks from across the UK - you just pull out the page you want, rather than having to carry a heavy book around with you.
There are a few reasons we keep coming back to this particular walk - the scenery is fantastic, the path is relatively easy, there are a couple of great tea stops en route and the Lizard Peninsula really does feel as far away from day-to-day life as it is possible to get.
The walk starts in the Lizard Village, before heading down to the exceptionally beautiful Kynance Cove. From Kynance, the coastal path makes its way along the cliff-tops, past Shetland ponies, to the opportunity to stop for the most southerly slice of cake in the UK and onward past lighthouses, a radio station, the coastguard's lookout point and finally to the new lifeboat station at Church Cove, from where it is a short stroll back inland, past picture-book thatched cottages. One of the best walks in one of the most beautiful areas of the country.
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