Walks: Godrevy Point, Cornwall

View from Churchtown Rd with Godrevy Lighthouse in the middle

Godrevy Head is a great walk because if you have a car, it’s very accessible. There’s unofficial roadside parking on Churchtown Rd by the St Gothian Sands before the Rockpool Cafe which allows you to park (with consideration) and have a walk on the Towans (dunes in Cornish) to your left or towards Godrevy to your right. The Rockpool Cafe nowadays looks good and had some fine dining available at some point, however when we visited Godrevy during the pandemic, it was closed.

Rockpool Cafe is the large white building on the right.

There’s also National Trust parking available at Godrevy which is free for members. There’s intial parking area by the access road with the booth, but there is additional parking driving up the single lane road. The whole of Godrevy gets really crowded during tourist season and in good weather, so we tend to avoid it unless outside the tourist season.

Regardless if you walk towards the Towans or the Godrevy, both are easy walking with flat gravel, grass and sand tracks.

View back to the St Gothian Sands, the Towans and the massive Hayle beach with St Ives just out of photo on the right.

Godrevy has even some decked walkway. Once reached Godrevy, the lighthouse on the Godrevy Island is presented away from the Godrevy Point.

There’s then the option of climbing up the hill to the Point and walk further towards Hell’s Mouth. This is also part of the SWCP.

On the other side of the hill, there’s a a small bay famous for its seal colony. Please keep the noise disturbance down, and enjoy the seals basking in the sun when they are around.

Video of the walk.