Visit Stencoose Places

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

  

Stencoose Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Stencoose

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Stencoose history

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By 1824 the main villages in the St Agnes Parish were Mithian, Stenclose (Stencoose), and Malow (Mawla) The Haweis family owned a forty or fifty acre estate in the village for many years.

You can visit Stencoose places with Walkfo Stencoose to hear history at Stencoose’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Stencoose has 49 places to visit in our interactive Stencoose 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 Stencoose, 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 Stencoose places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Stencoose & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 49 audio facts unique to Stencoose places in an interactive Stencoose map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Stencoose Places Map
49 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Stencoose places to visit

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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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