Looking East from Seatown, Dorset

Explorer maps covering the route of the South West Coast Path OL9 Exmoor 105 Falmouth & Mevagissey 139 Bideford, Ilfracombe and Barnstaple 107 St Austell & Liskeard 126 Clovelly & Hartland 108 Lower Tamar Valley & Plymouth 111 Bude, Boscastle & Tintagel OL20 South Devon 109 Bodmin Moor 110 Torquay & Dawlish 106 Newquay & Padstow 115 Exmouth & Sidmouth 104 Redruth & St Agnes 116 Lyme Regis & Bridport 102 Lands End OL15 Purbeck and South Dorset 103 The Lizard, Falmouth & Helston

Harvey Maps
This company is in the process of mapping the entire Coast Path at 1:40,000. The whole Coast Path will be covered in six sheets, two of which have been published so far at £9.95 each. Each map covers an area suitable for eight to nine days walking. They can be ordered online at www.harveymaps.co.uk

• South West Coast Path Map 2 Bude to Portreath
• South West Coast Path Map 3 Portreath to Lizard

Memory Map has published two volumes of digitised Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:25,000 and aerial photography covering the Coast Path at £99.95 each. They can be ordered online at www.memory-map.co.uk
South West Coast Path Minehead to Falmouth ISBN: 1-84514-108-3
South West Coast Path Falmouth to Poole ISBN:1-84514-109-1

The following four official Guidebooks cover different sections of the South West Coast Path. They are published by Aurum Press and include Ordnance Survey mapping of the coastal strip at 1:25,000. Each volume costs £12.99.

Minehead to Padstow by Roland Tarr - ISBN 978 1 84513 269 9 Padstow to Falmouth by John Macadam - ISBN 978 1 84513 270 5 Falmouth to Exmouth by Brian Le Messurier - ISBN 978 1 84513 194 4 Exmouth to Poole by Roland Tarr - ISBN 978 1 84513 271 2
A guide covering the entire South West Coast Path in one volume is published by Cicerone Press. This incorporates Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:50,000 and costs £12.95. The South West Coast Path by Paddy Dillon - ISBN 1 85284 379 9
In addition an annual guide with route, accommodation and other helpful information is published by the South West Coast Path Association on or about 1 March each year and costs £8.00. South West Coast Path Guide 2008 - ISBN 978-0-907055-14-3

GPS receivers are becoming an increasingly popular walking accessory, and work in a similar way to satellite navigation in cars. They are a useful back-up to a map in showing your precise location, distance and speed travelled, and what direction to go to reach the next point on a pre-plotted route, or to retrace your steps. More advanced models have larger screens, which can display all this against a backdrop of Ordnance Survey maps.

As the Coast Path is generally very easy to follow and well waymarked, the need for a gps unit is far less than it is for mountain walking. However, if you plan to use your gps, you can download from the GPS download page, gps and mapping software files for the entire route.