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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ashton, Cornwall

  

Ashton, Cornwall Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ashton, Cornwall

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You can visit Ashton, Cornwall places with Walkfo Ashton, Cornwall to hear history at Ashton, Cornwall’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ashton, Cornwall has 36 places to visit in our interactive Ashton, Cornwall 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 Ashton, Cornwall, 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 Ashton, Cornwall places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ashton, Cornwall & the surrounding areas.

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36 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Ashton, Cornwall places to visit

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

Pengersick Castle Pengersick Castle is a fortified manor house located between the villages of Germoe and Praa Sands in Cornwall. The tower house, which is in the parish of Breage, is a Grade I listed building.

Wheal Vor Wheal Vor was a metalliferous mine about 2 miles (3.2 km) north west of Helston and 1.6 km north of Breage in Cornwall. It is considered to be part of the Mount’s Bay mining district. The mine was notable for its willingness to try out new innovations.

Wheal Metal Wheal Metal is a tin-mining sett in west Cornwall, England, UK. It was described by the Mining Journal in July 1885 as the richest tin mine in the world. It also hosts a remarkable engine house of the mid-19th century.

St Breage’s Church, Breage Breage Parish Church is the Anglican parish church of the parish of Breage, Cornwall. It is dedicated to Saint Breaca, said to have been an Irish nun who came to Cornwall in the 5th-century.

Tregonning Hill Tregonning Hill is the westerly of two granite hills overlooking Mount’s Bay in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Plymouth chemist William Cookworthy mixed china stone with kaolin, mined from the hill to make Plymouth porcelain in 1768. Part of the hill is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Great Work Mine Great Work Mine is notable for its unusual chimney stack with the upper brick-work in two stages. The remaining ruin of the mine sits 400 ft above sea level. The site is owned by the National Trust and forms part of the Godolphin Estate.

Porthleven F.C. Porthleven Football Club is a Cornish football club. Founded in 1896, the club competed in the South Western League from 1967 to 1977 and again from 1989 until the dissolution of the league in 2007, when they joined the new South West Peninsula League.

Wheal Trewavas Wheal Trewavas was a copper mine in Cornwall, England, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Porthleven. The ruined engine houses remain on sea cliffs overlooking Mount’s Bay. The site is a Scheduled Monument.

Wheal Prosper, Rinsey Wheal Prosper was a tin mine in Cornwall, England, a short distance from the hamlet of Rinsey and about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Porthleven. The site is a Scheduled Monument, and the engine house is a Grade II listed building.

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is a World Heritage Site. The site was added to the World Heritage List during the 30th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, July 2006.

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