Camel Trail

#497 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Camel Trail is a permissive cycleway in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, that provides a recreational route for walkers, runners, cyclists and horse riders. The trail is flat; running from Padstow to Wenford Bridge via Wadebridge and Bodmin, it is 17.3 miles long and used by an estimated 400,000 users each year generating an income of approximately £3 million a year. ()

Length: 17.3 miCoordinates: 50°32'41"N, 4°42'14"W

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Camel Trail – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bodmin Jail, Rough Tor, Pencarrow, Bodmin Moor.

4.9 miS
Historical place, Museum, Reportedly haunted
Bodmin Jail, Bodmin
126 min walk • Bodmin Jail is a historic former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built in 1779 and closed in 1927, a large range of buildings fell into ruin, but parts of the prison have been turned into a tourist attraction, and more recently another large part was converted into a hotel.
5.1 miNE
Archaeological site
Rough Tor, Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor
131 min walk • Rough Tor, or Roughtor, is a tor on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The site is composed of the tor summit and logan stone, a neolithic tor enclosure, a large number of Bronze Age hut circles, and some contemporary monuments.
3.8 miSW
Architecture, Garden, Park
Pencarrow, Wadebridge
97 min walk • Pencarrow is a Grade II*-listed country house in the civil parish of Egloshayle, in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles east-southeast of Wadebridge and three miles north-northwest of Bodmin.
4.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Bodmin Moor, Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor
107 min walk • Bodmin Moor is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England. It is 208 square kilometres in size, and dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history.
3 miSW
Church
St Mabyn Parish Church
76 min walk • St Mabyn Church is a Grade I listed late 15th-century Church of England parish church in St Mabyn, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The church is dedicated to Saint Mabyn or Mabena, who was regarded in local tradition as one of the many children of Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog in the 5th century.
1.6 miSE
Church, Romanesque architecture
St Protus and St Hyacinth's Church, Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor
40 min walk • St Protus and St Hyacinth's Church, Blisland is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Blisland, Cornwall, England, UK.
3.2 miNE
Prehistoric site
King Arthur's Hall, Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor
81 min walk • King Arthur's Hall is a megalithic enclosure on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England. It is thought to be a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age ceremonial site.
5.1 miS
Town, Church, Gothic architecture
St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
130 min walk • St Petroc's Church, Bodmin, also known as Bodmin Parish Church, is an Anglican parish church in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The existing church building is dated 1469–1472 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral the largest church in Cornwall.
6.2 miNW
Beach
Tregardock and Treligga
159 min walk • Tregardock is a coastal hamlet and beach in the civil parish of Delabole in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between Trebarwith Strand and Port Gaverne.
3.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hawk's Tor, Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor
88 min walk • Hawk's Tor is a hill and tor on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, UK. Its summit is 307 metres above sea level. The tor, which is in the civil parish of Blisland, is located 7 miles north east of the town of Bodmin.
~110 ftW
Bridge, Trail
Wenfordbridge
1 min walk • Wenfordbridge, or Wenford Bridge, is a hamlet some 6 miles north of Bodmin and on the western flank of Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall, England, UK. It takes its name from an old granite bridge over the River Camel, and lies on the border between the parishes of St Breward and St Tudy.

Camel Trail

Facts and practical information

Camel Trail plan & book

Camel Trail – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)