Welcome to Visit Balwest Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Balwest
Visit Balwest places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Balwest places to visit. A unique way to experience Balwest’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Balwest as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Balwest Walkfo Preview Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe in west Cornwall. The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former mining area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners. When you visit Balwest, Walkfo brings Balwest places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Balwest Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Balwest
Visit Balwest – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Balwest places for you to explore in the Balwest area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Balwest places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Balwest with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Balwest places with Walkfo Balwest to hear history at Balwest’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Balwest has 41 places to visit in our interactive Balwest map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Balwest, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Balwest places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Balwest & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Balwest tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Balwest
Best Balwest places to visit
Balwest has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Balwest’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Balwest’s information audio spots:
Relubbus Relubbus is a hamlet in the parish of St Hilary, west Cornwall. It is on the B3280 road between Townshend and Goldsithney. River Hayle runs through the hamlet.
Pengersick Castle Pengersick Castle is a fortified manor house located between the villages of Germoe and Praa Sands in Cornwall. The tower house, which is in the parish of Breage, is a Grade I listed building.
Wheal Vor Wheal Vor was a metalliferous mine about 2 miles (3.2 km) north west of Helston and 1.6 km north of Breage in Cornwall. It is considered to be part of the Mount’s Bay mining district. The mine was notable for its willingness to try out new innovations.
Wheal Metal Wheal Metal is a tin-mining sett in west Cornwall, England, UK. It was described by the Mining Journal in July 1885 as the richest tin mine in the world. It also hosts a remarkable engine house of the mid-19th century.
St Breage’s Church, Breage Breage Parish Church is the Anglican parish church of the parish of Breage, Cornwall. It is dedicated to Saint Breaca, said to have been an Irish nun who came to Cornwall in the 5th-century.
Tregonning Hill Tregonning Hill is the westerly of two granite hills overlooking Mount’s Bay in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Plymouth chemist William Cookworthy mixed china stone with kaolin, mined from the hill to make Plymouth porcelain in 1768. Part of the hill is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Great Work Mine Great Work Mine is notable for its unusual chimney stack with the upper brick-work in two stages. The remaining ruin of the mine sits 400 ft above sea level. The site is owned by the National Trust and forms part of the Godolphin Estate.
Wheal Trewavas Wheal Trewavas was a copper mine in Cornwall, England, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Porthleven. The ruined engine houses remain on sea cliffs overlooking Mount’s Bay. The site is a Scheduled Monument.
Wheal Prosper, Rinsey Wheal Prosper was a tin mine in Cornwall, England, a short distance from the hamlet of Rinsey and about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Porthleven. The site is a Scheduled Monument, and the engine house is a Grade II listed building.
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is a World Heritage Site. The site was added to the World Heritage List during the 30th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, July 2006.
Visit Balwest plaques
0 plaques hereBalwest has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Balwest plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Balwest using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Balwest plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Balwest audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Balwest allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Balwest’s 41 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Balwest freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Balwest Map App
Our visit Balwest map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Balwest & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Balwest tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Balwest centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Balwest area at LONG:-5.36551, LAT:50.12082.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Balwest, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Balwest / surrounding areas
● Rosudgeon ● Halamanning ● Kenneggy Downs ● Kenneggy ● Lizard and Mount’s Bay Methodist Circuit ● Newtown, Cornwall ● Relubbus ● Praa Sands ● Pengersick Castle ● Germoe ● Polladras ● Wheal Vor ● Wheal Metal ● Sithney ● Broadlane ● Great Wheal Fortune ● St Breage’s Church, Breage ● Breage, Cornwall ● Godolphin Cross ● Tregonning Hill ● Breaney Methodist chapel ● Penhale Jakes ● Ashton, Cornwall ● Gwedna ● Balwest ● Great Work Mine ● Godolphin Estate ● Rinsey Croft ● Trenwheal ● Trewithick, Breage
● Boscreege ● Wheal Trewavas ● Rinsey ● Wheal Prosper, Rinsey ● Noonvares ● Townshend, Cornwall ● Paul’s Green ● Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape ● Kerthen Wood
Getting to / around Balwest – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Balwest using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Balwest places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Balwest Public Transport Stations
Balwest Notable Streets & Road Destinations
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Local Balwest historians & Balwest tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Balwest? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Balwest’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Balwest place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Balwest Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Balwest destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Balwest’ web pages (for example: www.visitBalwest.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336