This is the official guidebook describing the first section of the South West Coastal Path National Trail from Minehead to Padstow, a distance of 163 miles long. This guidebook describes the coastal walking from Exmoor, passing through the towns of Lynton, Lynmouth, Ilfracombe, and finishing at Padstow in North Cornwall. In total the South West Coastal long distance path starts at Minehead and finishes at Studland, Poole in Dorset, a total distance of 630 miles (1,008km). The South West Coast Path National Trail is Britainís longest National Trail around the coastline of Exmoor, Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. This is the complete, official guidebook for the Minehead to Padstow section of the South West Coastal Path National Trail. It includes many colour photographs and colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey's Explorer series of maps showing the route from Minehead to Padstow. This guidebook was published by Aurum Press in March 2016