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Introduction
1. The Trail
2. Up the track
3. Across the Fields to St Levan Churchtown
4. The Church and Churchyard of St Levan
5. Down to Porth Chapel
6. Up to Wireless Point
7. Past the Minack
8. Down to Porthcurno Beach
9. Along the Coastal Path towards Logan Rock
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9. Along the Coastal Path towards Logan Rock
| Cable House |
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| Take the coastal path east from the top of the beach. This begins not far from the cable house of the Eastern Telegraph Company. The telegraph cables which landed on the beach were terminated in this small building and from here, linked by underground cable to the telegraph station itself. Today the cable hut is opened during opening hours of the Telegraph Museum. |
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| White Pyramid |
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| About half way along the coastal path between Porthcurno beach and Treryn Dinas is a stone pyramid painted white. The marks the location of a cable hut which was connected to a telegraph cable laid from Brest in France in 1880. The cable was actually brought from the beach up the steep cliff face. The pyramid was built in the 1950s to mark the place after the original wooden hut was demolished. |
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| Treryn Dinas and The Logan Rock |
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The great rock castle of Treryn Dinas juts out to the east of Porthcurno. At its end sits the famous Logan Rock, a rectangular block of granite which weighs about 70 tons, and which can be rocked back and forth by one person. Stones such as this are common in Cornwall and result from the way the granite weathers and cracks to leave huge monoliths perched on top of each other. The Logan Rock was, famously, pushed off in 1824 but was replaced soon after.
On the way out to the Logan Rock, just before the grassy slope that leads to the promontory, there is a bank of earth. This is part of a great earthwork, a double bank and a ditch which extends in an arc for several hundred feet. This was an Iron Age fortification, hence the name ‘Dinas’ which means castle.
Once you have explored Treryn Dinas and the Logan Rock, return to Porthcurno via the Logan Rock Inn at Treen, the coastal path, or the public footpath across the fields which brings you back to the lane adjacent to the museum.
We recommend using Ordnance Survey Landranger Map no:102 to help guide you on your walk.
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