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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Carfury

  

Carfury Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Carfury

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You can visit Carfury places with Walkfo Carfury to hear history at Carfury’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Carfury has 41 places to visit in our interactive Carfury 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 Carfury, 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 Carfury places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Carfury & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Carfury Places Map
41 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Carfury places to visit

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

Heamoor Heamoor (formerly Hea) (Cornish: An Hay) is a village in the civil parish of Penzance. It is situated approximately one-and-a half kilometres (just over a mile) northwest of the town centre. The principal local authority is Cornwall Council. In May 2019, residents voted to submit a bid under Cornwall Council’s Community Governance Review to form a separate parish council.

Castle Horneck Castle Horneck is a refurbished Georgian mansion to the west of the Cornish town of Penzance. It is currently owned by the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) and has been used as a youth hostel since 1950.

Lesingey Round Lesingey Round is a ringfort, a smaller type of hillfort, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Penzance, in Cornwall. A ’round’ is a small circular embanked enclosure, with one entrance.

Trengwainton Garden Trengwainton (Cornish: Tredhigwenton, meaning farm of eternal springtime) is a garden situated in Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall. It has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1961. The garden is noted for its collection of exotic trees and shrubs.

Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel Madron Well Chapel is the ruin of a 12th- or 14th-century chapel dedicated to St Madern. Clouties, or offerings, can be seen on the path to the chapel, near the holy well.

Lanyon Quoit Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later.

Ding Dong mines The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area situated in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road. The site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006.

Baker’s Pit Nature Reserve Baker’s Pit Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Ludgvan, west Cornwall. The reserve is on the moorland of Noon Diggery and is south of Castle-an-Dinas hillfort and Roger’s Tower. Within the reserve is a distinctively shaped enclosure with a funnel-like entrance resembling a banjo enclosure.

Chysauster Ancient Village Chysauster Ancient Village (Cornish: Chisylvester, meaning Sylvester’s house) is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard. To the south east is the remains of a fogou, an underground structure of uncertain function.

Boskednan stone circle Boskednan stone circle (grid reference SW434351) is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle. It is located 4 miles (6 kilometres) northwest of Penzance in Cornwall. The original structure may have contained as many as 22 upright stones around its 69-metre perimeter.

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