Welcome to Visit Gwennap Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gwennap
Visit Gwennap places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gwennap places to visit. A unique way to experience Gwennap’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gwennap as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Gwennap (Cornish: Pluwwenep, meaning “the Parish of [Saint] Wenappa”) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall. It is about five miles (8 km) southeast of Redruth. Hamlets of Burncoose, Comford, Coombe, Crofthandy, Cusgarne, Fernsplatt, Frogpool, Goon Gumpas Hick’s Mill, Tresamble and United Downs lie in the parish. In the 18th and early 19th centuries it was called the “richest square mile in the Old World” When you visit Gwennap, Walkfo brings Gwennap places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Gwennap Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gwennap
Visit Gwennap – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 50 audio plaques & Gwennap places for you to explore in the Gwennap area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gwennap places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Gwennap with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Gwennap places with Walkfo Gwennap to hear history at Gwennap’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gwennap has 50 places to visit in our interactive Gwennap 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 Gwennap, 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 Gwennap places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gwennap & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo: Visit Gwennap Places Map
50 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Gwennap places to visit
Gwennap has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gwennap’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gwennap’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.
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 Gwennap plaques
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here Gwennap has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gwennap 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 Gwennap using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gwennap plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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