Sepsis Trelissick Woodland Walk

1. From the car park , follow the tarmacked track signposted "Woodland Walks" departing from beside the information hut. Continue through the gate beside the cattle grid and onwards until you reach a junction of surfaced paths.
2. At the crossing of paths, turn left and follow the path until you reach another surfaced path departing to the right, just before the path ends in a gate.
3. Bear right and follow the path downhill to reach a gate across the path just before the beach.
4. Go through the gate and follow the path to reach a gate marked "Woodland Walk"
5. Go through the gate and follow the path for just under half a mile until you reach a sign for the ferry just before a junction of paths.
6. After the ferry sign, keep left on the path marked "Woodland Walk" and follow the path down the steps to the road.
7. Cross the road to the section of wooden fence opposite and follow the path up the steps. Continue for just over half a mile until you reach a fork in the path with Roundwood Fort and Quay to the right and Trelissick to the left.
8. Keep right at the fork, signposted Roundwood Fort, then after crossing the stream bear right onto the path over the bridge. Follow the path to a junction of paths with a Roundwood NT sign on a standing stone.
9. Follow the path ahead through the gap in the wall into the woods. Where the path forks, stay on the main path and keep following it through the ramparts to the centre of the fort to reach a junction of paths beside a large tree with a holly bush at the bottom and various carvings int he trunk to the left of the holly bush.
10. At the junction by the tree, take the path to the right. Follow this path, keeping left down the hill to a flight of steps and descend these to the quay.
11. At the bottom of the steps, turn left and walk towards the house through the parking area to a gate onto a track passing the house. Follow the track to reach an opening on the left with an upright granite post in the centre, just after a gate on the left.
12. Go through the gap with the granite post and then between the wooden posts. Turn right and folow along the edge of the field to reach a post with a pink waymark, just before a gate.
13. Go through the pedestrian gate beside the gate and then through the one on the opposite side of the track. Once in the field, bear left to the gateway with a granite post and go through this, then follow along the left hedge, parallel to the track, to reach an information board and gate.
14. Go through the fate and turn right onto the track. Follow this until it ends on a lane.
15. Turn left onto the lane and follow it a short distance until you reach a track on the left marked as National Cycle Route 3.
16. Turn left onto the track and follow this over a stream to reach a gate on the left.
17. Go through the pedestrian fate beside the gate on the left and follow the path alongside the stream to the crossing that you encountered earlier on the walk.
18. Cross the stream and then turn right when you reach the junction, signposted Trelissick. Follow the zig-zag path to emerge via a gate onto a road.
19. Carefully cross the road to the gate opposite and go through this. Continue ahead to pass the track on the right and reach the front of the Old Lodge. Of the remaining 2 paths ahead, follow the surfaced one leading straight ahead until it ends on a tarmacked drive.
20. Turn left onto the drive and follow it until you reach the junction o paths that you encountered at the start of the walk.
21. Turn left at the junction to return to the car park.

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