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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Burncoose


Visit Burncoose PlacesVisit 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.

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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?


Visit Burncoose PlacesYou 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.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 49 audio facts unique to Burncoose places in an interactive Burncoose map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Burncoose Places Map
49 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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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:

Burncoose photo 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.
Burncoose 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.
Burncoose photo 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.
Burncoose photo 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.
Burncoose photo 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.
Burncoose 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.
Burncoose 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.
Burncoose 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.
Burncoose 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.

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Burncoose 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.