Visit Pendeen Places

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

  

Pendeen Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pendeen

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Pendeen geography / climate

Pendeen boasts three beaches although some are more accessible than others. Below Boscaswell is an area known as “The Craft” which is mostly overgrown by gorse, fern and brambles. Below Pendeen Lighthouse can be found the wreck of “The Liberty”, although most of it has been eroded away.

You can visit Pendeen places with Walkfo Pendeen to hear history at Pendeen’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pendeen has 39 places to visit in our interactive Pendeen 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 Pendeen, 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 Pendeen places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pendeen & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 39 audio facts unique to Pendeen places in an interactive Pendeen map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Pendeen Places Map
39 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Pendeen historic spots	Pendeen tourist destinations	Pendeen plaques	Pendeen geographic features
Walkfo Pendeen tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Pendeen

  

Best Pendeen places to visit

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

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.

St Bridget’s Church, Morvah St Bridget’s Church, Morvah is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro. It was licensed for divine service by the Bishop of Exeter on 22 September 1400. The tower is the only remaining medieval part of the church. The nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1828.

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