The walk begins at Cape Cornwall, England's only Cape, which was purchased and gifted to the nation by the Heinz corporation. The old mine chimney which was left as a daymark has been shored-up as The Heinz Monument and does bear some resemblance to a ketchup bottle.
The route follows the coast path across the Kenidjack Valley where the stream was once used to power over 50 waterwheels to pump water and crush ore. From the opposite side of the Kenidjack Valley there is a nice view over Cape Cornwall and the origins of its Cornish name are evident (it translates as "the goose-back of St Just").
The route continues along the coast path to Botallack Head, where the two iconic engine houses of Crown Mines are perched on precarious ledges just above the ocean.
Inland of this are remains of tin dressing floors and the brick-built labyrinthe used to condense arsenic impurities from the tin. Despite a few grains of pure arsenic being lethal, the men working here managed to do so with no apparent ill effect by stuffing cotton wool up their nose and painting their faces white with fuller's earth. Nearby is also the Count House which was the operational centre for the mine and has been restored by the National Trust and is now open as an information centre.
The walk continues along the coast to Levant where there is a working beam engine that has been restored by a group of enthusiasts. Tunnels from the mine extend around two miles out beneath the ocean, in a network which is over 60 miles in length. After the mine closed, these became flooded with sea water as one of the shallower tunnels developed a hole in the top. During the 1960s, tunnels were run from the Geevor tin mine to connect with the Levant tunnels and divers managed to re-seal the hole.
From here, the walk turns inland and crosses the fields from Higher Bal to Wheal Owles, where the accidental tunnelling into another flooded mine cost the lives of many men and the mine was abandoned. The return route is across more fields and down the lane past Porthledden to the Cape Cornwall car park.
The walk is available as a guided walk app for Android and also available in the iWalk app for iPhone.