Welcome to Visit Carnon Downs Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Carnon Downs
Visit Carnon Downs places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Carnon Downs places to visit. A unique way to experience Carnon Downs’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Carnon Downs as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Carnon Downs Walkfo Preview Carnon Downs (Cornish: Goon Karnen) is a village in Cornwall. It is about three miles southwest of Truro on the A39 Truro to Falmouth road. It consists mostly of bungalows and detached housing built in the latter half of the 20th century. When you visit Carnon Downs, Walkfo brings Carnon Downs places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Carnon Downs – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 43 audio plaques & Carnon Downs places for you to explore in the Carnon Downs area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Carnon Downs places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Carnon Downs with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Carnon Downs places with Walkfo Carnon Downs to hear history at Carnon Downs’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Carnon Downs has 43 places to visit in our interactive Carnon Downs 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 Carnon Downs, 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 Carnon Downs places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Carnon Downs & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Carnon Downs tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Carnon Downs
Best Carnon Downs places to visit
Carnon Downs has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Carnon Downs’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Carnon Downs’s information audio spots:
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.
Wheal Jane Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines.
Carnon Mine Carnon Mine was a tin mine at Restronguet Creek, near the village of Devoran in Cornwall. A ruined engine house survives on the north bank of the creek. It is a Grade II listed building.
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.
Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good Friends Meeting House is a meeting house of the Society of Friends (Quakers) It was also known as Kea Meeting House and Feock Meeting House. It is a simple thatched structure built of cobstone and whitewashed outside and in.
Trelissick Trelissick is a house and garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall. It is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry, and overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads. It lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
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.
Carclew House Carclew House was a large Palladian country house near Mylor in Cornwall. It was rebuilt in the 18th century and again in the early 19th century but was destroyed by fire in 1934.
Visit Carnon Downs plaques
0 plaques hereCarnon Downs has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Carnon Downs 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 Carnon Downs using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Carnon Downs plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Carnon Downs audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Carnon Downs allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Carnon Downs’s 43 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Carnon Downs freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Carnon Downs Map App
Our visit Carnon Downs map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Carnon Downs & 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 Carnon Downs tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Carnon Downs centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Carnon Downs area at LONG:-5.08755, LAT:50.22238.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Carnon Downs, 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 Carnon Downs / surrounding areas
● Calenick ● Porth Kea ● Penweathers ● Coombe, Kea ● Cowlands ● Playing Place ● Carrine Common & Penwethers ● Frogpool ● Perranarworthal ● St Piran’s Church, Perranarworthal ● Tullimaar House ● Cusgarne ● Baldhu ● Wheal Jane ● Devoran ● Carnon River ● Carnon Mine ● Carnon Downs ● Chycoose ● Angarrick ● Greenwith Common ● Come-to-Good ● Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good ● Goon Piper ● Penelewey ● Helston Water ● Restronguet Passage ● Porthgwidden ● Bissoe ● Trelissick
● Feock, Cornwall ● Coombe, Gwennap ● Fernsplatt ● Mount Wellington Tin Mine ● Great County Adit ● Hick’s Mill ● Kea, Cornwall ● Maritime Line ● Carclew House ● Carnon viaduct ● Restronguet Creek
Getting to / around Carnon Downs – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Carnon Downs using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Carnon Downs places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Carnon Downs Public Transport Stations
Carnon Downs Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Perranwell railway station
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Local Carnon Downs historians & Carnon Downs tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Carnon Downs? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Carnon Downs’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 Carnon Downs 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 Carnon Downs 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 Carnon Downs 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-Carnon Downs’ web pages (for example: www.visitCarnon Downs.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