Reach a path junction near Ferry Farm, which functioned as the Passage Inn during the 19th century. Keep straight on, following a permissive path along the embankment, to pass under the viaduct; ahead you may catch a glimpse of Cotehele House, redeveloped between 1485 and c. 1565, in woodland on the Cornish side of the river.
Danescombe Valley House, built in the 1850s, stands on the opposite bank at a big river bend. For much of the 20th century it was run as a small hotel for visitors arriving by boat at Kingfisher Quay. The river sweeps south beyond the Danescombe valley, alongside reedbeds. Cotehele Quay comes into view on the west bank; the 19th-century embankment upriver from the quay has been deliberately breached to allow for the development of intertidal meadows, to create wildlife habitat and alleviate flooding.