The ¼ mile entrance lane is perfect for little-people establishing their pedal power, but please ensure everybody keeps an ear tuned for occasional traffic (like the postman).
Trekee/Trelill circular
Turn left out of entrance lane and take the 1st right. Follow through Trekee farm, up a short hill, around the bend and on to a T junction. Turn right and take the next left turning, downhill (beware the sharp bend at the bottom) and up the hill to the outskirts of Trelill. Turn right at the converted chapel and continue to the crossroads. Go straight across (signposted Delabole) past Cornish Tipis till you find Tom’s Cottage entrance on the left.
St Teath circular
Turn left out of the entrance lane, continue to the grass triangle & turn right around a bend (signposted St Teath), continue down-hill past Treroosal Farm and enter St Teath village. Turn right at the T junction to reach the centre of village (White Hart on the left, Churchtown Café a little further on the left).
Turn right at the clock tower to start return leg (entrance to churchyard immediately on the left here), follow the road down & up, along a flat-ish stretch and down & up again to reach a crossroads. Turn right here (signposted Delabole), continue past Cornish Tipis entrance, over an old railway bridge on a bend, and Tom’s Cottage entrance will be on the left after about ¼mile.
Port Gaverne/Port Isaac circular
This does involve a half mile stretch on the B3314, which can be avoided by coming back the same way as you went.
Turn left out of the entrance lane, follow the road around the left bend to the B3314 by the white cottage. Go straight across the junction (caution advised here as the traffic is fast), signposted Port Gaverne. Follow the road all the way to Port Gaverne (about 2½ miles from Tom’s Cottage) – level or downhill all the way.
After a pit stop on the beach, at the café or pub or even a walk out on the headland; continue uphill (away from home) to Port Isaac. At the corner at the top of the village, go straight ahead (turning right off the Port Gaverne road) down the one-way system to reach The Old Schoolhouse; turn left to follow the road down to the harbour. Doc Martin fans will start recognising Port Wenn immediately.
To come home, return up onto the Port Gaverne road, but turn right to exit Port Isaac ‘the other way’, go through Trewetha and up a hill by Poltreworgy farm to reach the B3314. Turn left towards Pendoggett and keep your wits about you re the traffic, until reaching the first junction just before entering the hamlet of Pendoggett. Turn right (this road eventually leads to St Teath) follow along for a flat-ish spell before going down and up a hill. Soon after the brow of the hill, turn left at the crossroads (signposted Delabole), pass Cornish Tipis entrance and Tom’s Cottage entrance will be on the left.
St Kew circular
Turn right out of the entrance lane, go straight across the crossroads and continue through Trelill and on to St Kew Highway. Turn right at the Red Lion (before reaching the services and A39), pass the allotments and take the first left for St Kew.
Should you wish to reduce the distance, turn right at a small crossroads between Trelill and St Kew Highway, signposted Trequite; go through the pretty hamlet and follow the road ahead without turning off.
Both routes will bring you to adjoining T junctions on a bend by Skisdon. If you fancy a 50 yard excursion into St Kew Churchtown, turn right and the church and St Kew Inn will soon appear before you (nothing else to be found here!)
Turn left from the junction to soon reach a sharp bend by some houses, turn right here to go down through the ford and up the other side (past the back of the church). At the T junction one could extend the route by turning left and following the signposts for Chapel Amble – a pretty village at the far end of St Kew parish and home to the Malsters Arms.
Our main route though is to turn right at the T-junction at the top of the hill after the ford, passing the front of St Kew primary school on the left and continuing, bearing right round a corner to the first right turning. Take this, going through Pennytinney farm to a T junction. Turn left and continue to a little crossroads by Treharrock Cottages, on the outskirts of Pendoggett.
Turn right and continue along, down and up to the next crossroads – turn left (signposted Delabole), pass Cornish Tipis and Tom’s Cottage entrance will be on the left.
