Welcome to Visit Boscaswell Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Boscaswell


Visit Boscaswell PlacesVisit Boscaswell places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Boscaswell places to visit. A unique way to experience Boscaswell’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Boscaswell as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Boscaswell (Cornish: Boscaswal) is a village in the extreme west of Cornwall. It lies towards the cliffs from Pendeen, looking west across fields to the Atlantic Ocean. The village consists mainly of terraced cottages and a council house estate. When you visit Boscaswell, Walkfo brings Boscaswell places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Boscaswell Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Boscaswell


Visit Boscaswell – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

Boscaswell photo With 38 audio plaques & Boscaswell places for you to explore in the Boscaswell area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Boscaswell places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Boscaswell toponymy

“Boscaswell” should not be confused with the present-day village of Boscastle, further east on the north Cornwall coast. Archaeological excavations at the lower end of Boscaswell have indicated that the land has been occupied for more than 10,000 years.

Why visit Boscaswell with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Boscaswell PlacesYou can visit Boscaswell places with Walkfo Boscaswell to hear history at Boscaswell’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Boscaswell has 38 places to visit in our interactive Boscaswell 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 Boscaswell, 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 Boscaswell places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Boscaswell & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 38 audio facts unique to Boscaswell places in an interactive Boscaswell map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Boscaswell Places Map
38 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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

  

Best Boscaswell places to visit


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

Boscaswell photo Lower Bostraze and Leswidden SSSI
Lower Bostraze And Leswidden SSSI is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is located on the Penwith Peninsula, Cornwall, England, a little to the east of St Just, approximately 8 km west of Penzance.
Boscaswell photo Tregeseal East stone circle
Tregeseal East (Cornish: Meyn an Dons, meaning “Stones of the Dance”; grid reference SW386323) is a heavily restored prehistoric stone circle. It is one surviving circle of three that once stood aligned along an east–west axis on the hillside to the south of Carn Kenidjack.
Boscaswell photo St Just in Penwith Parish Church
St Just in Penwith Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England. It is located in St Just Penwith, Cornwall, UK.
Boscaswell photo St Just in Penwith
St Just (Cornish: Lan(n)ust), known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. The town of St Just is the most westerly town in mainland Britain and is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Penzance.
Boscaswell photo Wheal Owles
Wheal Owles was a tin mine in the parish of St Just in Cornwall, UK and the site of a disaster in 1893 when twenty miners lost their lives. Since 2006 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.
Boscaswell photo Cape Cornwall Mine
Cape Cornwall Mine was a tin mine on Cape Cornwall, a cape at the western tip of Cornwall, England. It operated intermittently between 1838 and 1883, after which it closed permanently and the engine house was demolished. The mine’s 1864 chimney near the peak of the cape was retained as an aid to navigation.
Boscaswell photo Botallack Mine
The Botallack Mine is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. The mine is within the Aire Point to Carrick Du Site of Special Scientific Interest. The South West Coast Path passes along the cliff.
Boscaswell photo Trewellard
Trewellard (from Cornish: Trewylard, meaning “Gwylard’s settlement”; grid reference SW376337) is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in Cornwall. Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.
Boscaswell photo Geevor Tin Mine
Geevor Tin Mine is a tin mine in the far west of Cornwall. It was operational between 1911 and 1990 during which time it produced about 50,000 tons of black tin. It is now a museum and heritage centre left as a living history of a working tin mine.
Boscaswell photo Boscaswell
Boscaswell (Cornish: Boscaswal) is a village in the extreme west of Cornwall. It lies towards the cliffs from Pendeen, looking west across fields to the Atlantic Ocean. The village consists mainly of terraced cottages and a council house estate.

Visit Boscaswell plaques


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Boscaswell has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Boscaswell 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 Boscaswell using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Boscaswell plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.