Clay Trails Partnership

17/02/2026

If you're looking for good maps of the Clay Trails search for Imerys Permissive Paths and the Clay Trails. Eden Project no longer show the clay trails maps.

02/08/2025

Many of you who love the Clay Trails also love to take photos. How about having a go at Wheal Martyn's photography competition?!

Announcing our new photography competition! 🎉📷

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, we're inviting photo submissions to share the spirit of Clay Country and its proud history.

This is your chance to celebrate the area’s unique industrial landscape, and the communities who helped shape it, by entering our competition.

Prizes are up for grabs for entries into the following categories:

Exploring Wheal Martyn – Capture your adventures and discoveries whilst exploring the museum and grounds. 🔎

Clay Country Nature & Landscapes – Show off the beautiful scenery and diversity of wildlife in Cornwall's Clay Country. 🦋

Clay Country People & Community – Highlight the vibrant spirit of the people who call the Clay Country home. 👋

Clay Country Industrial Heritage – Photograph the enduring legacy and striking structures of the china clay industry. ⚒

The competition is free to enter and is open from now until Sunday 2 November.

Head to our website for information about how to enter: https://www.wheal-martyn.com/Event/wheal-martyn-clay-works-photography-competition

21/04/2025

If you love the Clay Trails you may well be aware of Wheal Martyn museum, accessible from the Green Corridor and the trail from the Eden Project . Look out for various events there. This one at Wheal Martyn is a guided Spring nature walk on Tuesday 22 April.

🌸 Thank you to all those who joined us on our last guided spring nature walk around the historic Wheal Martyn grounds.

🌳 The next walk, led by our site ranger, will be taking place on Tuesday 22 April.

☕ Price includes admission to the wider museum after the walk and a breakfast bap and hot drink.

For more info and to book: https://www.wheal-martyn.com/Event/spring-nature-walks-at-wheal-martyn-22-apr-25

23/03/2025

Walk, run, cycle or horse ride along the beautiful Green Corridor between St Austell and the junction - left for Wheal Martyn or turn right to go further along the trails into the clay hills. The weather has become so much more inviting in recent days.

07/05/2024

15/03/2024

Just a reposting of these 3 original sculptures and their histories, set up a year or two after the clay trails were first opened in 2005.

15/03/2024

Explore the trail from Par Beach to Eden Project . The trail meets the beach where you can also find the trail markers - the lovely iron marker, created in 2013, depicting some methods of transport used in connection with the clay industry, and the wonderful sculpture made in 2005 when the trails were first opened. The sculpture represents some of the many items made with clay products.

28/02/2024

Menacuddle Well is on the Bodmin road, St Austell. It's accessible from the Green Corridor trail by a pathway close to the St Austell end of the trail, leading down to Bodmin Road. It's well worth a visit. Lately the waters are high and turbulent. Dramatic beauty!

30/01/2024

A beautiful afternoon along the Green Corridor, the trail from St Austell towards Wheal Martyn . Thank you to Rowena Barrett for sharing these lovely photos taken today.

01/01/2024

Thank you to Kevin Wood, for these beautiful photos of the trail between St Austell and Eden.

31/12/2023

Start the New Year with a walk on the clay trails. Message us your trail photos and we may be able to share them here.
This photo shows the trail to Eden.