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Martin Hesp
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All in Secret Cornwall
A walk around the National Trust’s Godolphin Estate in Cornwall
This walk takes us west of Lamorna Cove in far west Cornwall
A wonderful circular walk in Cornwall from the old fishing harbour at Mousehole west to the famous artists’ cove at Lamorna and back across the fields.
Journalist Martin Hesp writes about the Wreckers’ Coast which stretches from Hartland Point in North Devon South West in to Cornwall
A shortlist of the ten best beaches in Devon and Cornwall - with one in Somerset for good measure
The walk to Hollywell on the North Cornish coast is only a mile or two outside the busy resort of Newquay - but because there’s an estuary in between you will need to travel a round-about route to reach this little known corner of Cornwall
A list of 10 beautiful, remote and little visited beaches around Cornwall
A walk around iconic Church Cove on The Lizard in South West Cornwall
A walk along the south Cornish coast from the village of Pentewan to Black Head
In the second of our special articles on West Country chefs we meet Ross Sloan who now runs a remarkable ‘shell and fish takeaway’ in Porthleven in Cornwall. At the time of writing the article he was head chef at a rather lovely hotel nearby….
Time to give a shout-out to all those talented chefs out there who aren’t working at present because of the lockdown - here’s an article about the brilliant Greg Milne, head chef at St Michael’s Mount
Short video of a sea safari from Falmouth west along the eastern coast of The Lizard
Journalist Martin Hesp looks back at articles he has written about Cornish food producers who have recently featured on Rick Stein’s series about Cornwall - in this piece he travels to Launceston to visit Philip Warren & Son in their ‘shrine of good meat’
We visit the Cornish potato vodka makers - just like Rick Stein does in his latest TV series
In a new series of country notes Martin Hesp recalls a winter visit to Gurnard’s Head in West Cornwall
The G7 Summit is to be held in an obscure corner of Cornwall called Carbis Bay in June - Martin Hesp reflects on the West Country railway journey that will take delegates to this special place
An interview on Rick Stein’s new programme about Cornwall inspired us to put up this article and photos originally written about the Cornish Gouda Company back in 2015
The last of our Six Cornish Walks Martin Hesp goes west to Zennor where he walks out to the famous head-land
