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


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

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Baldhu is a former mining village. The name comes from the Cornish for ‘black mine’ The parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels is the burial place of Billy Bray. When you visit Baldhu, Walkfo brings Baldhu places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Baldhu Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Baldhu


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

With 48 audio plaques & Baldhu places for you to explore in the Baldhu area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Baldhu places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Baldhu with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Baldhu PlacesYou can visit Baldhu places with Walkfo Baldhu to hear history at Baldhu’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Baldhu has 48 places to visit in our interactive Baldhu 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 Baldhu, 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 Baldhu places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Baldhu & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 48 audio facts unique to Baldhu places in an interactive Baldhu map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Baldhu Places Map
48 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Baldhu historic spots

  Baldhu tourist destinations

  Baldhu plaques

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

  

Best Baldhu places to visit


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

Baldhu 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.
Baldhu photo Threemilestone
Threemilestone is a small village in the civil parish of Kenwyn, located precisely three miles west of Truro, the only city in Cornwall. The village has grown in recent years, as housing estates to the west have been developed.
Baldhu photo Wheal Jane
Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines.
Baldhu photo Perranwell railway station
Perranwell is on the Maritime Line between Truro and Falmouth Docks in south-west England. It is 304 miles 78 chains (490.8 km) measured from London Paddington.
Baldhu 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.
Baldhu 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.
Baldhu photo Mount Wellington Tin Mine
Mount Wellington Tin mine opened in 1976 and was the first new mine in the region in many years. With the fall of tin prices and the withdrawal of pumping subsidies, the mine finally closed in 1991. An attempt to revive the mine occurred when an individual tried to transform it into a visitor attraction, but his endeavour failed.
Baldhu 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.
Baldhu 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.

Visit Baldhu plaques


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Baldhu has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Baldhu 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 Baldhu using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Baldhu plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.