Plymouth City Council

Plymouth City Council

Waterfront Walkway - extending the South West Coast Path along Plymouth’s maritime environment.

The 13 kilometre walkway will be complete by the Millennium. It starts at the Cremyll Ferry and ends on Jenny Cliff. In the middle it passes sites that have played a significant role in world history, military, social and economic. The Pilgrim’s Gate, The Hoe, The Sound, Mount Batten.

It passes through a living city, a place where real people live.

The walk is a tourist attraction and the way markers along the walk can be seen as pointers. They are the milestones and markers pointing in the direction of the past, the present and the future of Plymouth. They enhance and mark the rhythms of the walk and provide links along a linear path through space and time.

Acknowledgements to Gordon Young, Russell Coleman, Owen Cunningham, and Why Not Associates.

Project Sponsors – Plymouth City Council.

Elvira’s Café The cafe is the home of the knitted breakfast. The knitted breakfast will clearly mark all places of refreshment.
Wall of industrial memories – West Hoe Road Reclaimed or replicated cast iron and cast bronze industrial signage relating to the industry of the Millbay Docks area.
Eclipse of the sun - Madeira Road, Dutton’s Café Letters and carved granite slabs inset to pavement celebrating the total eclipse of the sun on 11 August 1999.
Small people’s porthole – Breakwater Hill Reclaimed porthole mounted at a low level in the seaward concrete wall to facilitate views over Cattewater for children and small people who are unable to see the view.
Shrine to St Christopher - Breakwater Hill/Cattedown Road Very large stainless steel medallion of St Christopher, patron saint of travellers, framed by a bricked up archway. A nautical and pedestrian shrine in a site which commands fine views of the sea and land.
Codeword steps – steps down to Mount Batten Telegraphic codewords carved into existing new steps.

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