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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Scorrier


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

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Scorrier is in the Gwennap Mining District of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The name “Scorrier” is first attested as Scoria in 1330. The Plymouth to Penzance railway line passes through the village and between 1852 and 1964 it had its own station. When you visit Scorrier, Walkfo brings Scorrier places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Scorrier Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Scorrier


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

Scorrier photo With 52 audio plaques & Scorrier places for you to explore in the Scorrier area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Scorrier places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Scorrier with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Scorrier PlacesYou can visit Scorrier places with Walkfo Scorrier to hear history at Scorrier’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Scorrier has 52 places to visit in our interactive Scorrier 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 Scorrier, 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 Scorrier places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Scorrier & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 52 audio facts unique to Scorrier places in an interactive Scorrier map you can explore.”

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52 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Scorrier historic spots

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

  

Best Scorrier places to visit


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

Scorrier photo Carn Marth
Carn Marth (Cornish: Karn Margh) is the name of a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, near Redruth. It is 235 m (771 ft) high and is well known for the granite quarried from it in the past.
Scorrier photo 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.
Scorrier photo Wheal Gorland
Wheal Gorland was one of the most important Cornish mines of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is the type locality for the minerals chenevixite, clinoclase, cornwallite, kernowite and liroconite.
Scorrier photo Wheal Peevor
Wheal Peevor was a metalliferous mine located on North Downs about 1.5 miles north-east of Redruth, Cornwall. The first mining sett was granted here in around 1701 on land owned by the St Aubyn family. The mine covered only 12 acres (4.8 ha) but had rich tin lodes.
Scorrier photo 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.
Scorrier photo 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.
Scorrier photo Scorrier
Scorrier is in the Gwennap Mining District of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The name “Scorrier” is first attested as Scoria in 1330. The Plymouth to Penzance railway line passes through the village and between 1852 and 1964 it had its own station.
Scorrier photo Killifreth Mine
Killifreth Mine was a mine near Chacewater in Cornwall, producing copper, tin and arsenic. The engine house over Hawke’s Shaft is a Grade II listed building; it has the tallest surviving chimney in Cornwall.
Scorrier photo Wheal Busy
Wheal Busy was a metalliferous mine halfway between Redruth and Truro in the Gwennap mining area of Cornwall. During the 18th century the mine produced enormous amounts of copper ore and was very wealthy, but from the later 19th century onwards was not profitable. Today the site of the mine is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.

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