Welcome to Visit St Mawgan Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in St Mawgan
Visit St Mawgan places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best St Mawgan places to visit. A unique way to experience St Mawgan’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore St Mawgan as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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The population of this parish at the 2011 census was 1,307. The village is situated four miles northeast of Newquay. The surviving manor house known as Lanherne House is an early 16th-century grade I listed building. The nearby Royal Air Force station, RAF St Mawgan, takes its name from the village. When you visit St Mawgan, Walkfo brings St Mawgan places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
St Mawgan Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about St Mawgan
Visit St Mawgan – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 26 audio plaques & St Mawgan places for you to explore in the St Mawgan area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best St Mawgan places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
St Mawgan history
There is evidence of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements, but the village history is considered to start from the arrival of the Welsh missionary St Mawgan (or Meugan) and his followers in the 6th century. The Arundell family “of Lanherne” have been the chief landowners in the village since the 13th century. It was a branch of the prominent and widespread family also seated at Trerice, Tolverne, Menadarva and Wardour Castle in Wiltshire.
Why visit St Mawgan with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit St Mawgan places with Walkfo St Mawgan to hear history at St Mawgan’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo St Mawgan has 26 places to visit in our interactive St Mawgan 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 St Mawgan, 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 St Mawgan places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to St Mawgan & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo: Visit St Mawgan Places Map
26 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best St Mawgan places to visit
St Mawgan has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied St Mawgan’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo St Mawgan’s information audio spots:
RAF St Eval
RAF St. Eval was a Royal Air Force station for the RAF Coastal Command, southwest of Padstow in Cornwall, UK. Its primary role was to provide anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols off the south west coast. Aircraft from the airfield were also used for photographic reconnaissance missions, meteorological flights, convoy patrols and air-sea rescue missions.
Carnanton House
Carnanton House is a Georgian country house in Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall. It stands in a wooded estate at the head of the Lanherne valley adjacent to Newquay Airport.
Visit St Mawgan plaques
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here St Mawgan has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo St Mawgan 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 St Mawgan using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each St Mawgan plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.