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The cliff-top path is rough and airy

Start the scramble at the car park at the end of Shore Road. Walk south along the remnant of turf at the foot of a low line of gorse-topped crags. When the grass ends scramble along the stony shore past Know End Point topped by wind-blown trees. Continue round the point on the bedrock to a pebbly cove where the easier angled rocks at its back provide a zigzag scramble onto a cliff-top path. The cliff-top path is narrow, exposed and rocky in places. Do not trespass into the farmer’s fields. The path undulates along the top of crags and needs care. Turn a corner and cross over a headland into the deeper inlet of Cow’s Mouth. There is no public access up the dell at its head as this leads into the Gibraltar Farm campsite.

An impressive crag lines the east side of the cove, one of the north–south faults so prevalent in the area. It is a popular place for rock climbing although the base of the crag is covered at high tide and the rock is rather shattered. Note the red triangular scar above a small cave in the centre of the crag, where a large rock detached itself in 1983. The cave is on a mineral vein and is an old mine trial. In the 1970s turf as smooth as a bowling green abutted the crags; now it is a genuine sea cliff.