Welcome to Visit Burncoose Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Burncoose
Visit Burncoose places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Burncoose places to visit. A unique way to experience Burncoose’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Burncoose as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Burncoose Walkfo Preview Burncoose lies on the A393 road, 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Redruth. It was first recorded in 1277 as Burncoys, an anglicized name from the Cornish Broncoos, meaning “wood hill” When you visit Burncoose, Walkfo brings Burncoose places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Burncoose Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Burncoose
Visit Burncoose – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 49 audio plaques & Burncoose places for you to explore in the Burncoose area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Burncoose places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Burncoose with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Burncoose places with Walkfo Burncoose to hear history at Burncoose’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Burncoose has 49 places to visit in our interactive Burncoose 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 Burncoose, 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 Burncoose places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Burncoose & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Burncoose tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Burncoose
Best Burncoose places to visit
Burncoose has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Burncoose’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Burncoose’s information audio spots:
Carn Marth Carn Marth (Cornish: Karn Margh) is the name of a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, near Redruth. It is 235 m (771 ft) high and is well known for the granite quarried from it in the past.
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.
Wheal Gorland Wheal Gorland was one of the most important Cornish mines of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is the type locality for the minerals chenevixite, clinoclase, cornwallite, kernowite and liroconite.
Stithians Stithians (Cornish: Stedhyans), also known as St Stythians, is a village and civil parish in Cornwall. It lies in the middle of the triangle bounded by Redruth, Helston and Falmouth. Its population (2001) is 2,004, increasing to 2,101 at the 2011 census. An electoral ward in the same name also exists but stretches north to St Day.
St Piran’s Church, Perranarworthal St Piran’s Church is an active Anglican parish church in Perranarworthal, Cornwall. It is part of a united benefice consisting of eight churches, the Eight Saints Cluster, in the parishes of Stithians with Perran-Ar-Worthal and Gwennap.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Visit Burncoose plaques
0 plaques hereBurncoose has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Burncoose 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 Burncoose using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Burncoose plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Burncoose audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Burncoose allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Burncoose’s 49 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Burncoose freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Burncoose Map App
Our visit Burncoose map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Burncoose & 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 Burncoose tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Burncoose centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Burncoose area at LONG:-5.166, LAT:50.212.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Burncoose, 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.
● United Downs ● Consolidated Mines ● Wheal Maid ● Crofthandy ● Goon Gumpas ● Hale Mills ● Coombe, Gwennap ● Fernsplatt ● Mount Wellington Tin Mine ● Little Beside ● Great County Adit ● Twelveheads Methodist church ● Twelveheads ● Todpool ● Hick’s Mill ● Cornubian batholith ● Maritime Line
Getting to / around Burncoose – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Burncoose using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Burncoose places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Burncoose Public Transport Stations
Burncoose Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Perranwell railway station
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Local Burncoose historians & Burncoose tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Burncoose? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Burncoose’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 Burncoose 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 Burncoose 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 Burncoose 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-Burncoose’ web pages (for example: www.visitBurncoose.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