Visit Bissoe Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Bissoe

  

Bissoe Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Bissoe

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You can visit Bissoe places with Walkfo Bissoe to hear history at Bissoe’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bissoe has 51 places to visit in our interactive Bissoe 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 Bissoe, 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 Bissoe places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bissoe & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Bissoe Places Map
51 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Bissoe tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Bissoe

  

Best Bissoe places to visit

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Bissoe has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bissoe’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bissoe’s information audio spots:

Poldice mine Poldice mine is a former metalliferous mine located in southwest Cornwall. It is situated near the hamlet of Todpool, between the villages of Twelveheads and St Day, three miles east of Redruth.

St Piran’s Church, Perranarworthal St Piran’s Church is an active Anglican parish church in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. It is part of a united benefice consisting of eight churches, the Eight Saints Cluster, in the parishes of Stithians with Perran-Ar-Worthal and Gwennap.

Threemilestone Threemilestone is a small village in the civil parish of Kenwyn, located precisely three miles west of Truro, the only city in Cornwall. The village has grown in recent years, as housing estates to the west have been developed.

Wheal Jane Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines.

Carnon Mine Carnon Mine was a tin mine at Restronguet Creek, near the village of Devoran in Cornwall. A ruined engine house survives on the north bank of the creek. It is a Grade II listed building.

Perranwell railway station Perranwell is on the Maritime Line between Truro and Falmouth Docks in south-west England. It is 304 miles 78 chains (490.8 km) measured from London Paddington.

Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good Friends Meeting House is a meeting house of the Society of Friends (Quakers) It was also known as Kea Meeting House and Feock Meeting House. It is a simple thatched structure built of cobstone and whitewashed outside and in.

Consolidated Mines Consolidated Mines, also known as Great Consolidated mine, was a metalliferous mine. Mainly active during the first half of the 19th century, its mining sett was about 600 yards north–south; and 2,700 yards east–west, to the east of Carharrack.

Wheal Maid Wheal Maid (also Wheal Maiden) is a former mine in the Camborne-Redruth-St Day Mining District, 1.5km east of St Day. Between 1800 and 1840, profits are said to have been up to £200,000. In 1852, the mine was almalgamated with Poldice Mine and Carharrack Mine and worked as St Day United. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the mine site was turned into large lagoons and used as a tip for two other nearby mines: Mount Wellington and Wheal Jane.

Mount Wellington Tin Mine Mount Wellington Tin mine opened in 1976 and was the first new mine in the region in many years. With the fall of tin prices and the withdrawal of pumping subsidies, the mine finally closed in 1991. An attempt to revive the mine occurred when an individual tried to transform it into a visitor attraction, but his endeavour failed.

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