Welcome to Visit Boscaswell Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Boscaswell
Visit 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.
Visiting Boscaswell Walkfo Preview 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
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?
You 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
1 plaques hereBoscaswell 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.
Experience Boscaswell audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Boscaswell allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Boscaswell’s 38 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Boscaswell freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Boscaswell Map App
Our visit Boscaswell map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Boscaswell & 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 Boscaswell tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Boscaswell centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Boscaswell area at LONG:-5.6666666666667, LAT:50.15.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Boscaswell, 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 Boscaswell / surrounding areas
● Lower Bostraze and Leswidden SSSI ● Tregeseal East stone circle ● Tregeseal ● St Just in Penwith Parish Church ● St Just in Penwith ● Carn Kenidjack ● Ballowall Barrow ● Boscean ● Priest Cove ● Botallack ● Cape Cornwall ● Kenidjack Valley ● Wheal Owles ● Cape Cornwall Mine ● Botallack Manor ● Carnyorth ● Botallack Mine ● Crown Mines ● Trewellard ● Geevor Tin Mine ● Boscaswell ● Lower Boscaswell ● Higher Boscaswell ● Pendeen ● Pendeen Vau ● Pendeen Lighthouse ● Bojewyan ● Morvah ● St Bridget’s Church, Morvah ● Higher Downs
● Chûn Castle ● Trevowhan ● Great Bosullow ● Little Bosullow ● Levant Mine and Beam Engine ● Chûn Quoit
Getting to / around Boscaswell – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Boscaswell using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Boscaswell places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Boscaswell Public Transport Stations
Boscaswell Notable Streets & Road Destinations
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Local Boscaswell historians & Boscaswell tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Boscaswell? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Boscaswell’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 Boscaswell 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 Boscaswell 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 Boscaswell 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-Boscaswell’ web pages (for example: www.visitBoscaswell.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