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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Pennance

  

Pennance Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pennance

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You can visit Pennance places with Walkfo Pennance to hear history at Pennance’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pennance has 60 places to visit in our interactive Pennance 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 Pennance, 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 Pennance places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pennance & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Pennance Places Map
60 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Pennance places to visit

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

East Pool mine East Pool mine (later known as East Pool and Agar mine), was a metalliferous mine in the Camborne and Redruth mining area, just east of the village of Pool in Cornwall. Worked from the early 18th century until 1945, first for copper and later tin, it was very profitable for much of its life.

Carn Brea Castle Carn Brea Castle is a 14th-century grade II listed granite stone building. It was extensively remodelled in the 18th century as a hunting lodge in the style of a castle for the Basset family. The building is in private use as a restaurant.

South Wheal Frances Mine South Wheal Frances is a former mine accessing the copper and tin of the Great Flat Lode south of Camborne in Cornwall, England.

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.

Wheal Peevor Wheal Peevor was a metalliferous mine located on North Downs about 1.5 miles north-east of Redruth, Cornwall. The first mining sett was granted here in around 1701 on land owned by the St Aubyn family. The mine covered only 12 acres (4.8 ha) but had rich tin lodes.

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