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Pool

Two enormous Cornish beam engines — among the finest surviving examples in the world — stand at East...

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Lower Trewellard

The largest preserved tin mining site in the UK, Geevor closed in 1990 and has since become one of C...

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Herland Croft

A fascinating Tudor and Stuart mansion set in ancient orchards and gardens on the edge of the wester...

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Penhallick

The largest and best-preserved fogou in Cornwall, Halliggye is an underground stone passage on the T...

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A tiny hut on the cliffside near Bude, built by the eccentric poet and vicar Robert Stephen Hawker f...

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Indian Queens

A historic Methodist preaching pit hidden within a modern housing estate. An amphitheatre-like struc...

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Tintagel

Built in the 1930s by a wealthy devotee of the Arthurian legend, King Arthur's Great Halls is a rema...

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Bodmin

The grandest Victorian country house in Cornwall, Lanhydrock was largely rebuilt after a catastrophi...

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Trevowhan

A massive Neolithic capstone resting on three upright granite boulders, Lanyon Quoit is the most acc...

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Launceston

The only shell keep in England to feature a cylindrical tower rising within it, Launceston Castle wa...

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Lower Trewellard

Clinging to the clifftop above the Atlantic, Levant is the oldest surviving beam engine in Cornwall ...

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Housel Bay

At the southernmost point of mainland Britain, Lizard Lighthouse has warned mariners away from the t...

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Kerris

The most complete and perfectly circular Bronze Age stone circle in Cornwall, the Merry Maidens stan...

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Minions

A small but engaging heritage centre in the former engine house at Minions, the highest village on B...

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The world's largest collection of witchcraft artefacts, tracing the practice and persecution of magi...

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Little Bosullow

Among the most enigmatic of Penwith's prehistoric monuments, the Mên-an-Tol — Cornish for 'stone of ...

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Falmouth

A world-class maritime museum on Falmouth's regenerated waterfront, built around the remarkable Smal...

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Wadebridge

The mile-long wooded approach to Pencarrow House, lined with ancient rhododendrons and passing an Ir...

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