Illogan Highway

Richard Trevithick

Tregajorran · 0.6 miles

Memorial stone marking the site of the demolished birthplace of steam engine pioneer Richard Trevithick. Final sentence of inscription: ‘This monument is erected as an appreciation of the great inventor and his gifts to the world.’

Basset Monument

Carn Brea · 0.6 miles

90 foot high Celtic cross. Monument to Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset. 1836.

Red River Stream Works

Tolvaddon Downs · 1.2 miles

Old arsenic works with a stack (chimney)

Pennance Consols

Lanner · 2.5 miles

Old engine house for defunct copper mine

Crane Castle

Coombe · 3.1 miles

Cliff castles are coastal promontories adapted as enclosures and fortified on the landward side by the construction of one or more ramparts accompanied by ditches. On the seaward side the precipitous cliffs of the promontory provided a natural defence, on

St Gothian's Chapel

Gwithian · 5.6 miles

The remains of an early medieval chapel, which is usually covered by wind-blown sand, the reason for its abandonment in the 13th century. Excavations in 1827 disclosed four phases of building and usage. The first in the 6th to 7th centuries when it origin