Top 10 Heritage Sites
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EXHIBITION - Falmouth in the Days of Sail - A pictorial tour of Falmouth and Penryn before the time of photography, which illustrates the incredible variety of visiting ships and boats and the evolution of the town.
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English Heritage Interactive Lectures - Ask the experts as history comes alive at Pendennis Castle in Falmouth.
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Events and service for Truro Cathedral in February - List of events and services for the month ahead at Cornwall's cathedral.
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Half term fun at Pendennis Castle - A week of events at Falmouth's castle including sleepovers and ghost tours!
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Nick's Top 10 Heritage Sites
"The King Harry's Cornwall area is rich with the evidence of Cornwall's distinctive heritage. These ten special sites all have connections with the sea, with the Fal estuary providing, since prehistory, the highway for the movement of people and ideas and the export of Cornwall's mineral wealth"Prehistoric
1. Roundwood Quay
Grid Ref SW 8389 4041 (National Trust).
Iron Age (300BC-50AD) promontary fort with two outer ramparts and inner enclosure sit above the early 19th century copper export quay. More...
Medieval
2. St Clement churchyard
Grid Ref SW 8507 4387 (CoE)
5-7th century granite cross on a modern base with traces of an Ogham (Irish) inscription as well as the latin IGNIOC VITALI FILI. More...
3. Old Kea Church.
Grid Ref 8442 4170 (private)
The church was pulled down in 1803 and only the romantic tower remains and the later 1862 Mission Church. More...
Military
4. Pendennis Castle and Headland
Grid Ref SW 8240 3183 (Cornwall Council and English Heritage)
Tudor castle with associated Civil War, 18th, 19th and 20th century fortifications on the surrounding headland. More...
5. St Mawes Castle
Grid Ref SW 8411 3276 (English Heritage)
Clover leaf shaped tudor fort with associated 20th century fortifications. More...
6. St Anthony Battery
Grid Ref SW 8476 3124 (National Trust)
1897 Coastal Battery for 6" guns with World War 2 Battery Observation Post. More...
7. Mylor Harbour
Napoleonic War naval dockyard, quay and store buildings, and later HQ of the original HMS Ganges naval training base. More...
8. Turnaware Point
Grid Ref SW 8374 3834. (National Trust)
Remains of a D Day Embarkation Hard for US Rangers landing at Omaha Beach. More...
Industrial
9. Kennall Vale Gunpowder Mills
Grid Ref SW 7501 3744 (Cornwall Wildlife Trust)
Best preserved gunpowder works in Cornwall (1812-1910). Extensive remains of the water powered mills. More...
10. Poldice Valley mine
Grid Ref SW 7420 4280 (Poldice Valley Trust and Cornwall Council)
Extensive remains of mining and conserved arsenic works. On the Coast to Coast cycle trail. More...