Porthtowan

Richard Trevithick

Tregajorran · 4.3 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.’

Crane Castle

Coombe · 4.3 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

Basset Monument

Carn Brea · 4.3 miles

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

Red River Stream Works

Tolvaddon Downs · 4.3 miles

Old arsenic works with a stack (chimney)

Pennance Consols

Lanner · 4.3 miles

Old engine house for defunct copper mine

Caer Dane

Perranwell · 5.6 miles

later prehistoric multiple enclosure fort. It is surrounded on three of its four sides by small streams and sits across the valley to the south west from another site Caer Kief