Penzance Prom to Mousehole
West Cornwall · Multi-use path · Out and back · Easy
55 min – 1 hr 25 min · Penzance, Jubilee Pool → Penzance, Jubilee Pool
Desk-researched — not yet run on the ground
Elevation profile
66 m gain · high 24 m
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0 m – 24 m
Line mapped on a filtered walking graph that keeps to paths and quiet lanes and treats fast or classified roads as cross-only (scripts/walk-graph.mjs); elevation from EU-DEM 25 m. Not from a recorded run.
Mapped from OpenStreetMap footpaths on the OpenTopoMap contour map — a planning line, not a recorded run.
- Distance
- 10.6 km
- Climb
- 66 m
- Per km
- 6 m
- On foot
- 55 min – 1 hr 25 min
- Line
- Mapped
An out-and-back from the Jubilee Pool along Penzance promenade, through Newlyn's working fish quays and along the shore road past Penlee to Mousehole's pocket harbour. Never more than a few metres above the sea, which is exactly the point.
Getting there and back
Penzance is the end of the main line. Buses run to Mousehole if you want to make it one-way — check times.
Parking
The harbour-side car parks in Penzance are large; Mousehole's are tiny, which is another reason to start from Penzance.
Conditions
Tarmac prom and pavement, then the shore road with a proper footway most of the way and short pinches where it narrows.
Navigation
Keep the sea on your left until the harbour closes around you. That is the entire briefing.
Season
The all-weather option: when a gale shuts the coast path, this usually still works — unless the swell is coming over the prom wall.
Dogs
Simple on a lead the whole way. The fish quay smells are the highlight of many dogs' week.
Good for
- Flat tempo miles when the cliffs are blown out
- Winter running with streetlights most of the way
- An evening run ending at a harbour
Watch for
- Pavement pinches and fish-lorry traffic through Newlyn
- Swell breaking clean over the prom in a southerly blow
- Crowds strolling four abreast on fine evenings
On the ground
- Toilets and cafes in Penzance, Newlyn and Mousehole
- The Jubilee Pool for a cold finish in season
GPX download
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