England – Cornwall – Duckpool Beach National Park (En)

Duckpool is a remote beach with rock pools overlooked by cliffs often covered in wildflowers. In this area you will find high up on the mountain, running along the coast, the Morwenstow Vicarage and Hawker’s Hut, a historic cottage, with stunning views of the coast and its cliffs.

What to see

We parked right on Duckpool Beach, and you are greeted by spectacular scenery and a beautiful unspoilt rocky beach with a fast-flowing stream running into it.

We then drive up the mountain, along the narrowest road we have ever driven on, where it can fit a car and scrapes the sides, to follow the cliff-top coast road. Here you come across Morwenstow Vicarage situated next to the churchyard, facing the fields of the appropriately named Vicarage Cliff. The Reverend Hawker built the vicarage and it is extraordinary. The old kitchen fireplace is a replica of Hawker’s mother’s grave.

We continue uphill pastures filled with sheep until we reach the top of the cliffs, where we come across Hawker’s Hut, a historic hut originally built by the eccentric clergyman, poet and antiquarian Robert Stephen Hawker, located approximately 1 mile from Morwenstow Church.

We returned to where we had parked at the 13th-century Vicarage Farm, now a tea room and went inside to see its terrace with teapots hanging from the trees and the interior.

The next day we went to Dartmoor National Park, a vast moorland in the county of Devon, with forests, rivers, wetlands and tors (rock formations), which you can see in the next blog!

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