Welcome to Visit Broad Lane Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Broad Lane
Visit 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.
Visiting Broad Lane Walkfo Preview 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?
You 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.
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:
Trevenson Trevenson (Cornish: Trevensyn) is in the parish of Carn Brea, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
2 plaques hereBroad 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.
Experience Broad Lane audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Broad Lane allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Broad Lane’s 66 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Broad Lane freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Broad Lane Map App
Our visit Broad Lane map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Broad Lane & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Broad Lane tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Broad Lane centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Broad Lane area at LONG:-5.2616, LAT:50.2362.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Broad Lane, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Broad Lane / surrounding areas
● Roskear Croft ● Roscroggan ● Trevenson ● Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall ● Roskear ● All Saints’ Church, Tuckingmill ● Heartlands Cornwall ● South Crofty ● West Cornwall Bryophytes Site of Special Scientific Interest ● Park Bottom ● Rosewarne ● Illogan Highway ● Pool, Cornwall ● Dolcoath mine ● Tehidy Country Park ● East Pool mine ● Penhallick ● Camborne–Redruth Urban District ● Broad Lane ● West Tolgus ● Kerrier ● Tregajorran ● Paynter’s Lane End ● Trevithick Society ● Camborne ● St Martin and St Meriadoc’s Church, Camborne ● Pengegon ● Brea, Cornwall ● Illogan ● Bosleake
● Carn Arthen ● Higher Condurrow ● Piece, Cornwall ● Tolgus Mount ● Camborne Redruth Community Hospital ● Carn Brea Village ● Carn Brea, Redruth ● Great Flat Lode ● Carn Brea Castle ● Plain-an-Gwarry ● Church Town, Cornwall ● Kresen Kernow ● Gilbert’s Coombe ● Church Coombe ● Mining Exchange ● Carnkie, Redruth ● Redruth ● Parc Erissey ● Bridge, Cornwall ● South Wheal Frances Mine ● Treleigh ● Pennance ● Mount Ambrose ● Grillis ● King Edward Mine ● Porteath ● Portreath ● Nance Wood ● Wheal Rose ● Wheal Peevor ● Radnor, Cornwall ● Forge, Cornwall ● RRH Portreath ● Cambrose
Getting to / around Broad Lane – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Broad Lane using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Broad Lane places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Broad Lane Public Transport Stations
Broad Lane Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Camborne railway station
Redruth railway station
Redruth transmitting station
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Local Broad Lane historians & Broad Lane tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Broad Lane? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Broad Lane’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Broad Lane place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Broad Lane Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Broad Lane destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Broad Lane’ web pages (for example: www.visitBroad Lane.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336