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Portreath
Portreath is a fishing port on the B3301 north east from Gwithian three miles north west from Redruth. The village is centred around the harbour and to the west is the popular tourist and water sport beach. Click here for more on Portreath
Illogen/Egloshal
Illogan/Egloshal village which is southeast of Portreath which is about two miles northwest of Redruth. The medieval church of St Illogan is located here of which the tower is now all that remains of the original building. Click here for more on Illogen/Egloshal
Camborne/Kambronn
Camborne/Kambronn is a town north east of St Ives off the A30 that expanded during the mining boom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Camborne's parish church was built in the fifteenth century. Here is tenth or eleventh century alter stone set in the alter of the church which came from Chapel La. Click here for more on Camborne/Kambronn
Carn Brea
The Carn Brea hill has site encircling stone walls constructed about six thousand years ago. A series of large stone walls encircle the central and eastern tors of the hill, with a double set of ramparts built across the slopes which links both and encloses the area between them. Click here for more on Carn Brea
Redruth/Resrudh
Redruth/Resrudh is a town to the north east of Camborne and about nine miles west of Truro and developed with the expansion of the mining industry. The church of St Uny was built in 1756 on an original Norman site. Murdoch House built in the seventeenth century originally as a chapel is next door to St Rumon's Gardens. Click here for more on Redruth/Resrudh
Porthtowan
Porthtowan is a coastal village on the Atlantic Coast about three miles north of Redruth. Historically mining was important to the village and the remains Wheal Coates mine are nearby. Porthtowan is known for surfing and a sandy beach with dunes. Click here for more on Porthtowan
St Agnes/Breaneck
St Agnes/Breaneck is a village and popular tourist location north along the coast from Porthtowan and about five miles north of Redruth. It is noted for it's scenic coastal walks. The Beacon is a prominent local landmark with spectacular views of the surrounding coast line. Wheal Coats Mining buildings are on the coast close to the village. Click here for more on St Agnes/Breaneck
Perranporth/Porthpryan
Perranporth/Porthpryan is a village on the Atlantic coast north from St Agnes and about six miles southwest of Newquay with shops, restaurants and leisure facilities. Perranporth and Perran beach is a popular tourist location and also hosts an annual inter Celtic Festival. Click here for more on Perranporth/Porthpryan
Perranzabuloe/Pyran yn Treth
Perranzabuloe/Pyran yn Treth is a small village about a mile south of Perranporth. The name is derived from Piran in the sand referring to St Piran (the patron saint of Cornwall) who founded a church on the coat close to Perranporth in the seventh century. Click here for more on Perranzabuloe/Pyran yn Treth
St Piran's Churches
Said to have been built in the eighth century St Pirans is submerged beneath the sand in Perran Bay, with an inscribed stone marking the site. It is made up of a rectangular building containing a nave and chancel, with a bench stone surrounding the interior. A fifth-sixth century stone with Roman capitals is incorporated into one wall. Click here for more on St Piran's Churches
Mitchell
Mitchell is inland from Perran bay and along the B3285 east to the A30 and northeast along that road. It is about seventeen miles southwest of Bodmin. In the village is a sixteenth century coaching inn. Carland Cross about a mile west of Mitchell is the site of Iron Age burial mounds. Click here for more on Mitchell
St Newlyn East/Eglosniwlin
St Newlyn East/Eglosniwlin is northwest from Mitchell and is about three miles south of Newquay. The church is Norman in origin with a font from that period although much of the existing building is fourteenth and fifteenth century. Click here for more on St Newlyn East/Eglosniwlin
Cubert/Lannowynn
Cubert/Lannowynn is a village west from St Newlyn East about three and half miles southwest of Newquay Within the village is a fourteenth century church. Click here for more on Cubert/Lannowynn