Going east St Just to St Ives
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Start from St Just main square and walk east down Church Street keeping the church on your left. Turn slightly left and keep House Number 1 on your left as the footpath goes down the hill. Turn left at the road and head towards Tregeseal village. After about 100 yards, just as you get to the first houses, turn right over a stile and onto a footpath (SW 373 316).
Cross over a wooden footbridge and turn right up the road onto the moors. Continue up the road until it becomes a dirt track with a sign to Hailglower Farm. Keep left where the track divides (SW 383 319), heading towards Hailglower Farm and then up the hill onto the moors at (SW 385 324).
Turn right through a gate – notice the Tinners’ Way stone on your left and the Tregeseal Stone Circle shortly on your right. Follow the way markers until you will reach a double gate at (SW 390 330). Go through the gate, under some electricity pylons, straight on along a rough track that becomes a farm track and then returns to being a rough track. (This is the aptly named “Watery Lane”) until you reach the B3318 at (SW 395 330).
Cross the road and continue across Woon Gumpus Common following the waymarkers until you reach Trehyllys Farm. Continue past the farm, the route follows the public road out to the Madron – Morvah road at Bosullow.
Turn right, then a very short way down the road, take the track on the left. This is called Coronation Lane.
Follow this lane all the way up to the top at the Four Parishes Stone. Heading east from the Four Parishes Stone, just past the stone waymarker, the paths diverge – take the left-hand path that climbs steadily onto Nine Maidens Common. Continue along the path as it descends to join the track that leads to Brook Cottage.
Turn right along the track until it joins the track from Tredinnick to Bosporthennis. Turn left onto this track; the Bodrifty Settlement is now just ahead on your right and you may want to turn right at the wooden gate set in stone pillars and follow the permissive path through the settlement and back onto the moor. The official route continues to the bridleway (SW 443 356) and then turns right, initially skirting the enclosed fields to the south, then reaching open moorland towards the top.
Follow the path straight ahead over the moor and down towards the road on the other side. Ahead you now have clear views of the Zennor Hills and Castle an Dinas. Reach Grove Corner at Gear Hill (road from Penzance to Treen) at the top of the Trye Valley (SW 451 360). The 16A Penzance to St Ives bus passes this point.
The route follows the road signposted to Zennor and St Ives from the junction, just to your right. Carry straight on through an open gate onto a track known as “Ladydowns Lane”. Turn slightly left at “Bishop’s Head and Foot”. Beyond Milldowns Cottage the track opens out into a wide hedged lane, then into wide open moorland.
Follow the marker posts over the top of Amalveor Downs and then down the track as it descends to the road at Embla Vean (SW 481 373). Turn left and walk along the road for about 500 metres, and at (SW 483 377) and take the waymarked path straight ahead.
Follow the waymarks through Sweetwater Farm and then turn sharp left through a stand of bamboo, over a stile and into a field. Keep to the left of the hedge until near the top of the field where the path bears right through a gap in the hedge at (SW 484 380).
Join the path at (SW 485 380). The path heads east keeping to the right of the hedge as far as Towednack church. The path joins the access road for Towednack church and reaches Holmans Moor Road. The 16A Penzance to St Ives bus passes this point.
Turn left when you reach the road and then, after about 100 yards, turn right onto the road to St Ives until you reach a stile on your left at (SW 492 386).
Continue up the hill through a gate to a stile. Here the paths fork. Follow the path ahead that circles around to the left next to the rocky outcrop on the summit, and over the saddle between the 2 peaks of Rosewall Hill. Head downhill through a couple of kissing gates to the car park.
Cross the road to a gate (SW 487 395) and take the well-defined path up, and down Trevalgan Hill passing a memorial plaque on a large boulder to the artist Peter Lanyon. Continue over a stile on the descent and towards a small gate into a lane (SW 489 399).
Turn right along the lane and continue for 200 yards taking the footpath on the left (SW 491 399) and follow this across two fields to reach Travalgan. Pass through the campsite aiming for a clearly marked stone stile between buildings at the end of the road.
Turn right onto the footpath that skirts the buildings on the northside (SW 490 402) towards St Ives. The path passes through two more fields, crossing over stiles in the hedges, to reach Trowan. At this point the path continues through Trowan, passing between the houses, then continues in a direction parallel to the sea along a well worn path across the fields . The route crosses a track (SW 502 406) then continues over many ancient stiles along the route to Higher Burthallen.
On reaching Burthallan Lane (SW 506 407), turn right and, when you reach Alexander Road, turn left and follow the road downhill taking the sharp left before Barnoon cemetery down the steep hill to Porthmeor beach. Continue past Tate St Ives and follow the road round to the right then left. Shortly afterwards turn right into Porthmeor Square leading to Bunkers Hill and Fore Street, making your way along the harbour towards the Lifeboat Station.