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South West Coast Path Audio Guides

Original audio guides at culturally significant sites along the trail — from the Norman doorway of Minehead Priory to the smugglers' alleys of South Haven Point, with the mysterious Nine Standards cairns in between. Free. In your headphones. While you walk.

8guides
26minutes
7stages covered
ENEnglish narration

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Threads across the catalogue

Listen to multiple guides and the catalogue starts working as a single piece. Three stories thread through it.

The Tin Coast — engine houses on the cliffs

Wheal Coates (the iconic engine house above Chapel Porth) → Geevor (a working tin mine into the 1990s, now a museum) → Botallack & Levant (the Crowns engine houses clinging to the cliff face, and the beam engine still running on steam). Cornwall's UNESCO-listed mining world, told in three stops.

Giants, kings and the devil

Tintagel Castle (where legend places King Arthur's conception) → St Michael's Mount (the giant Cormoran and the archangel's apparition) → Old Harry Rocks (chalk stacks that carry the devil's own nickname). The path's legends, from Cornwall to the Purbeck finish.

Start to finish — 630 miles of coast

By tradition you dip your boots in the Bristol Channel beside the giant map sculpture at Minehead — and again in the English Channel when you finally reach the marker at South Haven Point, 630 miles later. Two guides bookend the walk.

Use them on the trail with the mobile app

Same audio, but the app cache-downloads each guide for offline use, triggers playback when you approach a site by GPS, and remembers where you stopped. The web pages are perfect for planning at home. The app is for walking.

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