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


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

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Broad Lane is a hamlet in the civil parish of Carn Brea near Illogan in Cornwall. The current Methodist chapel of Broad Lane was built in 1887. When you visit Broad Lane, Walkfo brings Broad Lane places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Broad Lane Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Broad Lane


Visit Broad Lane – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 66 audio plaques & Broad Lane places for you to explore in the Broad Lane area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Broad Lane places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Broad Lane with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Broad Lane PlacesYou can visit Broad Lane places with Walkfo Broad Lane to hear history at Broad Lane’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Broad Lane has 66 places to visit in our interactive Broad Lane 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 Broad Lane, 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 Broad Lane places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Broad Lane & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 66 audio facts unique to Broad Lane places in an interactive Broad Lane map you can explore.”

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66 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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

  

Best Broad Lane places to visit


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

Broad Lane photo Trevenson
Trevenson (Cornish: Trevensyn) is in the parish of Carn Brea, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Broad Lane photo South Crofty
South Crofty is a metalliferous tin and copper mine located in Pool, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has seen production for over 400 years, and extends almost two and a half miles across and 3,000 feet (910 m) down and has mined over 40 lodes.
Broad Lane photo Dolcoath mine
Dolcoath mine (Cornish: Bal Dorkoth) was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its name derives from the Cornish for ‘Old Ground’, and it was also affectionately known as The Queen of Cornish Mines.
Broad Lane photo Tehidy Country Park
Tehidy Country Park is a country park in Illogan in Cornwall. It incorporates 250 acres (1.0 km) of parkland and estate. The park’s facilities include an events field, barbecue hire facilities in a specially designated woodland, outdoor education facilities, a permanent orienteering course and a schools and youth campsite.
Broad Lane photo East Pool mine
East Pool mine (later known as East Pool and Agar mine), was a metalliferous mine in the Camborne and Redruth mining area, just east of the village of Pool in Cornwall. Worked from the early 18th century until 1945, first for copper and later tin, it was very profitable for much of its life.
Broad Lane photo Carn Brea Castle
Carn Brea Castle is a 14th-century grade II listed granite stone building. It was extensively remodelled in the 18th century as a hunting lodge in the style of a castle for the Basset family. The building is in private use as a restaurant.
Broad Lane photo South Wheal Frances Mine
South Wheal Frances is a former mine accessing the copper and tin of the Great Flat Lode south of Camborne in Cornwall, England.
Broad Lane photo King Edward Mine
The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine wholly owned by Cornwall Council. At the end of the 19th century students at the Camborne School of Mines spent much of their time doing practical mining and tin dressing work.
Broad Lane photo Nance Wood
Nance Wood is a woodland Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Portreath, west Cornwall. Site was first notified in 1951 for its almost pure dwarf, sessile oak (Quercus petraea) coppiced woodland. Irish spurge (Euphorbia hyberna) found in only two localities in Britain.
Broad Lane 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.

Visit Broad Lane plaques


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Broad Lane has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Broad Lane 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 Broad Lane using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Broad Lane plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.