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Looking East from Seatown, Dorset
There is a wide range of maps and guidebooks that
can help you to get more out of walking the South West
Coast Path. We do not supply these, but they can be
ordered from any bookshop, from online booksellers
or in some cases direct from the publisher. To order
guidebooks, you will find it helpful to quote the ISBN
numbers given below.

Ordnance
Survey
The route of the South West Coast Path is shown on
Ordnance Survey Landranger maps at
1:50,000 and in much more detail on their Explorer
Maps at 1:25,000.
Both are widely available in the UK or can be ordered
from bookshops or online from www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Explorer Maps covering the route of the South West
Coast Path £7.49 each |
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| Explorer maps
covering the route of the South West Coast Path |
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| OL9 |
Exmoor |
105 |
Falmouth & Mevagissey |
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| 139 |
Bideford, Ilfracombe and Barnstaple |
107 |
St Austell & Liskeard |
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| 126 |
Clovelly & Hartland |
108 |
Lower Tamar Valley & Plymouth |
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| 111 |
Bude, Boscastle & Tintagel |
OL20 |
South Devon |
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| 109 |
Bodmin Moor |
110 |
Torquay & Dawlish |
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| 106 |
Newquay & Padstow |
115 |
Exmouth & Sidmouth |
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| 104 |
Redruth & St Agnes |
116 |
Lyme Regis & Bridport |
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| 102 |
Lands End |
OL15 |
Purbeck and South Dorset |
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| 103 |
The Lizard, Falmouth & Helston |
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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
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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.
 
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. |