Welcome to Visit Balwest Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Balwest
Visit Balwest places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Balwest places to visit. A unique way to experience Balwest’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Balwest as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe in west Cornwall. The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former mining area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners. When you visit Balwest, Walkfo brings Balwest places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Balwest Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Balwest
Visit Balwest – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Balwest places for you to explore in the Balwest area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Balwest places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Balwest with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Balwest places with Walkfo Balwest to hear history at Balwest’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Balwest has 41 places to visit in our interactive Balwest 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 Balwest, 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 Balwest places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Balwest & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 41 audio facts unique to Balwest places in an interactive Balwest map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Balwest Places Map
41 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Balwest historic spots | Balwest tourist destinations | Balwest plaques | Balwest geographic features |
| Walkfo Balwest tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Balwest | |||
Best Balwest places to visit
Balwest has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Balwest’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Balwest’s information audio spots:
 | Relubbus Relubbus is a hamlet in the parish of St Hilary, west Cornwall. It is on the B3280 road between Townshend and Goldsithney. River Hayle runs through the hamlet. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
Visit Balwest plaques
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here Balwest has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Balwest 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 Balwest using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Balwest plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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