Visit Penponds Places

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

  

Penponds Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Penponds

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Penponds history

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Bronze Age socketed axes were found in a pit at Viaduct Farm, Higher Roseworthy. Neolithic flints were found at Penponds and are in the Camborne museum. The most likely site for Penpons manor house and chapel is at Ivy Cottage, which appears to be a 15th-century rectangular L-shaped building.

Penponds geography / climate

To the east is the former mining town of Camborne and to the north is the Penzance to Plymouth railway line. The Penponds Viaduct carries the railway over the Roseworthy valley. To the south is the village of Barripper.

You can visit Penponds places with Walkfo Penponds to hear history at Penponds’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Penponds has 45 places to visit in our interactive Penponds 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 Penponds, 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 Penponds places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Penponds & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 45 audio facts unique to Penponds places in an interactive Penponds map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Penponds Places Map
45 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Penponds places to visit

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

South Crofty South Crofty is a metalliferous tin and copper mine located in Pool, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has seen production for over 400 years, and extends almost two and a half miles across and 3,000 feet (910 m) down and has mined over 40 lodes.

Dolcoath mine Dolcoath mine (Cornish: Bal Dorkoth) was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its name derives from the Cornish for ‘Old Ground’, and it was also affectionately known as The Queen of Cornish Mines.

King Edward Mine The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine wholly owned by Cornwall Council. At the end of the 19th century students at the Camborne School of Mines spent much of their time doing practical mining and tin dressing work.

Carwynnen Quoit Carwynnen Quoit (grid reference SW650372) is a dolmen belonging to the Neolithic period. It collapsed in 1966 and was re-erected in 2014.

Holy Trinity Church, Penponds Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed parish church in Penponds, Cornwall. It was built in the 1930s and is located in the area of Cornwall.

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