Cape Cornwall & St Just- Is it worth visiting?
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- We love this walk around Cape Cornwall because it follows a fabulous Cornish Folklore story of The Wrecker and the Death Ship.
Starting in St Just church, the walk makes its way to the coast and picks up the South West Coast Path towards Cape Cornwall. The Cape is one of the most stunning viewpoints in Cornwall and offers loads to see including an old church and tranquil cove with a mermaid pool. The route continues inland above the Kenidjack valley and arrives back at the church.
The video overlays the folklore story as we go and we think you will be enthralled by the tale.
The standard description bit…
We are Sarah and Andrew and we film our walks around Cornwall and publish on TH-cam, usually weekly. Sometimes we stay in accommodation in Cornwall and upload our vlog. Sarah is fascinated by sea glass and likes to collect it so there may be the occasional sea glass video too. The channel is a hobby and we both have normal day jobs!
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Love your coastal walks, the scenery is so dramatic and atmospheric, a far cry from life in Central England cities, cannot wait to make the escape back down to Cornwall in June.
Have a wonderful time! Sarah :)
Thank you so much for this great walk. We did most of it and really loved it.
Wow what a story.
That is indeed a stunning view! At first the big house made me think of Wuthering Heights, but the light interiors changed the mood. What a great story! It sounds like the kind of tale that would make a good opera!
Wow what a story I definitely was hooked on this one.
Glad you enjoyed it! Sarah :)
Agan great story telling Sarah -you are both very talented when it comes to bringing history to life & your books are super references. You are both good custodians of these books and they are providing a wonderful backdrop to the fantastic scenery of Cornwall, Cape Cornwall and St Just are beautiful, rugged and atmospheric, more so with the ‘odd’ weather we have been having all year. This video has really focused my mind as I have ancestors who lived in St Just with the surname of ‘James” - unfortunately that is where my memory ends but I a romantic enough to think that there is a connection with your video. Great story - Thank you
If only you knew Sarah n you calm me down at the end of another day up ere in london x
Many hols n you all over em xxxx
Lovely little town not a bad chippy there as well on the square nice old chapel down at cape Cornwall
One of our favourite parts of Cornwall .... great story ... thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Sarah :)
wow, enthralled by this walk and story 🐷🖤🏴☠⚰
A cracking yarn and a beautiful walk. Thank you both, and greetings from Bodmin Moor - the remote bit!
Our pleasure! Sarah :)
Awesome 👌 like and shared out in you tube community. ⌚
Thank you! Sarah :)
No problem j green 👌 😎
How awesome to own a Victorian book with the owner’s name and date written inside. Then to find his gravestone. Great history today…Fisherman’s Friends…” on top of Cape Cornwall “. Wonderful Cornish song. Beautiful scenery…always enjoy your videos…thanks.
Very appropriate! Sarah :)
Well done for managing to avoid the worst of this month's rain down in this part of Cornwall - it's been positively biblical most days. you got off quite lightly. Fab walk, as ever. Many thanks for your company (and the dramatic input...!)
Biblical is the right way to describe it! Better weather this week though! Sarah :)
One of your best. Loved it a lot. Have a lovely weekend
Thank you! You too! Sarah :)
We’ve often wondered what the big house was, we thought it was the clubhouse for the golf course, it’s a tad outside our price range. You’re definitely best walking from St Just to Cape Cornwall, the narrow lane is a real pain in a car. Great video as usual!
The road is a bit tight especially in summer when the traffic is more frequent! Sarah :)
This is a very beautiful area. I have walked there, and will again in June. The story about the wrecker is really interesting. I have heard that these stories are exaggerated and that they actually didn't kill the people who were on the boats, but perhaps they did... It is described in detail in the book "Jamaica Inn" of Daphne Du Maurier, and also more than hinted about in the Poldark series. Even if these are fiction stories, there may be some truth to it. At least you made a very interesting vidao, as you always do. And these old books are real treasures. Thank you. Torunn 🥰
Great story, well researched.
Thank you for another wonderful walk and story 🙂
Brings back memories of a pleasant day visit last June. Never been before but will be sure to visit again.
Great area of Cornwall - enjoy! Sarah :)
Kurt Jackson has an amazing art gallery there too. I love all the old books you pick up. Thanks again for a lovely walk.
Rumour had it that every exhibition he earned enough to buy a small house! Always wondered if that rumour was true - imagine! 😂Sarah :D
Fascinating story another great walk xxx thank you
You’re welcome! Sarah :)
Lovely area, my grandmother was born in St Just and we enjoyed our visit there. Great story.
Great place! Sarah :)
One on the top 'gate lean' walks in the last 12months xxx
I agree! Sarah :)
I've said it before, sorry for being boring but this was just like doing a walk with friends. Lovely ! In the past my wife and I have walked the entire SWCP and these days we try to return to Cornwall from France, where we live, in order to cherry-pick our favourite walks to do them again. In June we hope to be back walking a combination of coastal walks and country walks that you have shown us. Thank you so much.
Thank you for your lovely comment’ I hope you enjoy your Cornish walking! Sarah :)
Hi Sarah and Andrew 😊
I have followed you for a good few years now - and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your beautiful funny entertaining bloggs. I absolutely love CORNWALL. You are both so lovely! And very very VERY lucky to live in Kernow!! I actually first went to St Ives when I was 3 !!!!! Now aged 60 I still love it as much as I did then 😅. I tried EVERYTHING to live in Kernow but sadly it never happened. Keep on smiling and WALKING!!!! 🚶♀️ 🚶 🥰🥰. Maureen from Liverpool xxx
I love your enthusiastic comment! Thank you!!! Sarah :)
Brilliant walk, fantastic story, and amazing scenery. Love the links between the author of your book, the landscape, St Just Church and his gravestone, and the fact that his personal, inscribed copy of the book has found a worthy appreciative home in your collection. St Just & Cape Cornwall are beautiful places that I first came across 30yrs ago. I have distinct memories of it being an Indian Summer in October with blazing blue skies, incredible heat and St Just town centre seeming like the Mediterranean! Though not considering myself very 'religious' these days I always pay a vist to the St Just church and say prayers for family & friends...it's a very 'grounding' place and space :)
We had a cracking summer when they filmed the 2015 first series of Poldark, you can see that Eleanor Tomlinson was sunburnt! Sarah :)
Very interesting story, lovely stroll in beautiful surroundings, and fabulous view from that impressive mansion house on the hill, those storm clouds looked menacing, thanks 🙏 for indulging us with another strange happening in this Cornish Cove, pleased you have both recovered nicely from covid and back on track👍 but minus the delightful mud-babies 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it and no doggies for this one! Perhaps next time! Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails Hi. Sarah, thanks for the reply, haven’t been so well the last couple of weeks, haven’t been on YT much, Philip sent a small donation on my behalf hope you received it, take care, see you next time 🤗
Free Parking?!!! Wow...not much of that about these days!! Fabulous story of old Cornwall & actually finding the grave too. Love your tales and even the black clouds appeared on cue to make it more dramatic. We have actually had two days of sunshine in Kent. Can't believe it! x J x
Sunny weather? Yes we need some! Sarah :)
Love walking around Cape Cornwall and also to the cairns high above Tregesal. Where are the pouches?
Thank you for another great video. I had ancestors in St Just way back. I need to get back again soon.
I hope you make a book of walks.
Maybe one day! Sarah :)
Hi Sarah and Andrew….lovely, scary, amazing, story! Love the church was so antique…so lovely….thank you for sharing the story…kept us listening until the end! Lovely that you can keep the book (1873) for many many years to come! Be well 🌼(Ana)
Wonderful video ,quite a scary story today ,but I loved it ,based in one of my favourite places ,have stayed in the holiday let’s opposite the golf course ,and walked down to priest cove in the fog ,very atmospheric and creepy, thank you so much for doing these lovely walks and talks for us ,especially as we are landlocked in the midlands 😂
Glad you enjoyed it, a little touch of Cornwall! Sarah :)
Absolutely loved your video. Another great adventure and so interesting about the wreckers..never knew that .. also love the story about the house and the Debeers diamond background.. thank you so much. I always look forward to your videos.
Thanks 👍 Sarah :)
Really enjoyed this, thank you 😊
Did you know that Cape Cornwall was considered to be Land's end at once upon a time
Hi Sarah and Andrew. I loved your walk so relaxing with amazing views and interesting history. Hope you are both well now as you sound a lot better than last week.
Glad you enjoyed it and getting back to normal now, thank you! Sarah :)
Thanks great place were planning to visit now I think that free carpark drew us in lol.
Nothing is free in Cornwall 😅😅😅😅
We're down next bank holiday can't wait.
Kev
... Just wonderful, thank you!🥰
Our pleasure! Sarah :)
Fabulous story and fabulous walk 👌... has to be my favourite place in Cornwall 🥰👍💖
Mine too! Sarah :)
Loved this walk - beautiful scenery! Thank you.
Our pleasure! Sarah :)
PS you should try the fish and chips there in the square they are the best in West Cornwall in my book
Well done Sarah and Andrew. A lovely walk and story. Been there many times before over the years. Always love your walks which include the coastline.💕
Our pleasure! Sarah :)
The Black Pig was the name of Captain Pugwash's boat in the animated series and that was a load of fiction as well. Both good stories though. Thanks.
Furthermore my investigations reveal the titles of the first series shown on the BBC were as follows : Ghost Ship (18.2.62); Press Gang (29.4.62 and Man Overboard (13.5.62). All very strange. Nothing to indicate that Horatio Pugwash was a Cornish man but apparently his arch rival Cut Throat Jake did speak with a West Country accent!
Ahhh! Jim lad! I guess the writer had to be inspired by something! Sarah :)
That was so fun to watch, thanks Sarah and Andrew! How very strange that the sky turned dark for your story!😯😅
Yes it was! And so atmospheric to boot! Sarah :)
CORNISH CHUFF SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A CARRY ON FILM 😂
We were a bit short of money in the early 90's so I did potato harvesting around Kelynack it was hot dusty and windy so the boys were quite black at the end of the day, mermaids pool down at Priests Cove was a welcome end to the day on occasion. Two of my favourite books are Wild Life at the Land's End by John Coulson Tregarthen, which is a challenging read if you do not like hunting and Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines, by R.M. Ballantyne. My friend who opened the Tremeneer sculpture Garden made me aware of the uncelebrated life of Hugh Seymour Tremenheere, Founder of H.M. Inspectorate of Mines and the Work of the First Inspector Hugh Seymour Tremenheere to improve working conditions in the mines. this might prove a good bit of research for a video? This was a wonderful video and nicely made. Had to Laugh at Andrews Camborne comment...
Interesting link between Tremenheere and mining, thank you! Sarah :)
Thanks , an interesting walk.
Glad you enjoyed it, Sarah :)
Lovely spot we have stayed in Escalls just a short way down the coast. In St just faddens pasties I can highly recommend. But you might have to order it they're often sold before they are baked...
Good to know! Sarah :)
Looking at the horizon you can understand why people thought the earth was flat 😮😮
Excellent story Guys!
Its a wild old place down there....lovely house, but must be so windswept most of the time. Wouldn't be for me - if I had £5 million!
Has Andrew got his taste back after the illness? Didn't see him tucking into a Warren's, St Just Pasty .
Sarah, you sound more like your old self now, so getting there....where are the Spaniel's?
I expected that you would mention Jethro, but on checking my facts - despite his many references to St Just, he was actually born in St Buryan!
Yes, Jethro is indeed a St Buryan boy! We are both on the mend thank you! although Andrew still has a lingering cough and no sense of smell so no hankering for a pasty yet! Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails That's a disaster!. Andrew/Pasty inextricably linked.
Not to be able to smell a pasty cooking is torture!
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How spooky that whilst you were regaling this tale ,a brooding black cloud appears over the very church he should have been buried in! Witchcraft ? Nah, just the great British weather. Strange all the same. Brilliant tale well told. Keep 'em coming
It was quite amazing! The good old British weather! Sarah :)
@@CornishWalkingTrails just read on someone else’s post that you’ve had pc Problems. Hope everything was backed up.
@@colinbaker3415 Hmmmm... funny you should say that but our older HDD died too. Honestly! You couldn't write this!! Sarah :)
Love your walks but please can you get a wind shield for your microphone?
We have one - it’s just windy in Cornwall! Sarah :)
I will die in Cornwall xxx
Which town in Cornwall has the best library, an varied genres
Hi Sarah and Andrew.....Do we have a new video for Saturday 20 April...or have I missed it ?. Stay well and stay safe
Hi Roger thanks for your message. No you haven’t missed it. Unfortunately our computer stopped working this week and we haven’t been able to get it fixed, so I have not been able to edit a video this week. I have put a post out tonight on Facebook to explain as a few people have asked about this. Hopefully we will be back to normal soon. Thanks Sarah 🙂
@@CornishWalkingTrails thanks for the answer
Very weird church at st just
2nd homers sell ya cornish home to a local family at Cornish wage prices. Do the right thing
A lovely part of Cornwall, that we have visited a few times over the year, May not of done if we had heard that story!!!! All the best Bob
😂 Sarah