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Truro train viaduct

Truro

(0.5 miles, 0.8 km)

Truro, today is Cornwall's unofficial capital and adminstrative centre but in the Middle Ages Truro was one of the towns which controlled Cornwall's flourishing tin mining industry...

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The Quaker Meeting House @ Come To Good.

Come-to-Good

(2.9 miles, 4.7 km, direction SW)

Come-to-Good consists of a farm, 7 residential houses and a Quaker Meeting House which was built in 1710 and is a grade 1 listed building. The settlement lies on the Tregye Road.....

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St Just in Roseland

St Just in Roseland

(5.7 miles, 9.1 km, direction S)

This is a little place that is every bit as enchanting as its name...

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A picture of Veryan

Veryan

(6.0 miles, 9.6 km, direction SE)

Popular Cornish resort in the heart of the beautiful Roseland peninsula, Veryan is a place of strong Cornish traditions which offers it's visitors a genuine welcome...

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Mylor, Cornwall. Beautiful Mylor Yacht Harbour near Falmouth in Cornwall

Mylor

(6.0 miles, 9.7 km, direction S)

This pretty resort is beautifully situated close to a creek that was once a Royal dockyard, these days it is busy as a yacht anchorage, it is at its most attractive as the waters of high tide gently laps the quay...

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Bluebells, Park Lye,  Enys Gardens, Gluvias, Penryn,Cornwall

Penryn

(7.0 miles, 11.3 km, direction SW)

Penryn is one of Cornwall's most ancient town's, first appearing in the Doomsday book under the name Trelivel, until in 1216 when the Bishop of Exeter founded the town and named.....

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St Mawes

St Mawes

(7.2 miles, 11.5 km, direction S)

St. Mawes is the stuff picture postcards are made of, the sunlight reflecting on the frothy ocean waves, the warm sea breezes, dreamy thatched cottages overlooking the bay...

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Portloe

Portloe

(7.2 miles, 11.5 km, direction SE)

"One of the least spoiled and most impressive of Cornish fishing villages" - Sir John Betjeman (famous poet 1906-1984)..

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Trebah Gardens

Falmouth

(7.5 miles, 12.1 km, direction S)

Think of Falmouth and you immediately think of the sparkling sea in a bay alive with busy colourful pleasure and sailing boats all jostling along in bright sunshine. You think.....

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View of the sea from the valley.

Trevellas

(7.5 miles, 12.1 km, direction NW)

Lovely coastal region lying at the mouth of Trevellas Coombe, a steep valley with stone built tall chimneys and the shell of a derelict engine house still standing as evocative reminders of the old Blue Hills Tin Mine...

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Trelissick House

Trelissick Garden

(3.1 miles, 4.9 km, direction S)

Lying in a favoured position at the head of the Carrick Roads, almost islanded by the River Fal and two of it's numerous creeks.....

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Callestock Cider Farm, Penhallow, Cornwall. 1996.

Callestock Cider Farm

(5.1 miles, 8.3 km, direction NW)

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A picture of Trewithen Gardens, near Truro, Cornwall

Trewithen Gardens

(5.4 miles, 8.7 km, direction E)

Trewithen is a glorious 18th-century house built by Thomas Edwards and decorated in Rococo style. It forms a backdrop for.....

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Bluebells, Park Lye,  Enys Gardens, Gluvias, Penryn,Cornwall

Enys Gardens

(6.4 miles, 10.4 km, direction SW)

Flower-filled gardens with meadows, ponds and woodland, plus weekend art exhibitions and tearooms...

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St Mawes Castle - the sea view.

St Mawes Castle

(7.3 miles, 11.7 km, direction S)

Built by Henry VIII between 1540-45 due to the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain. Built as one of a pair, their.....

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Kennall Vale Nature Reserve

Kennall Vale Nature Reserve

(7.3 miles, 11.8 km, direction SW)

A picturesque valley along the river Kennall, with wonderful walks through woodlands...

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National Maritime Museum, Falmouth, Cornwall

National Maritime Museum, Cornwall

(7.6 miles, 12.3 km, direction S)

Housed in an award winning building on the Falmouth harbour-side, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall transports you into the.....

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Misty Wheal Peevor

Wheal Peevor

(7.8 miles, 12.5 km, direction W)

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Pendennis Castle, Pendennis Point, Falmouth, Cornwall

Pendennis Castle

(7.9 miles, 12.7 km, direction S)

Built at the side of a naturally deep harbour Pendennis Castle forms one of Henry VIII's coastal defences, built to guard against.....

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St. Anthony's Lighthouse. near Falmouth, England

St Anthony Head

(8.3 miles, 13.4 km, direction S)

One of the world's largest natural harbours...

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