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Angarrack

Angarrack is a village in west Cornwall, UK.

Angarrack
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The place

Angarrack is a village in west Cornwall, UK. It is in the parish of Gwinear-Gwithian a mile to the east of Hayle. Immediately south of the village Angarrack viaduct carries the Cornish mainline railway over the Angarrack River. The name comes from An Garrek which means "The Rock" in the Cornish language. According to the Ordnance Survey the spelling is Angarrack but on signs near the village, it is variously spelled Angarrack, Angharrack, or Angarrick.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Angarrack

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Elwyn's Church, Hayle

    St Elwyn’s Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK.

    2.6 km · church in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Saint Winnear

    St Gwinear's Church, Gwinear is a Grade I listed church in the Church of England in Gwinear, Cornwall.

    1.3 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Felicitas and St Piala's Church, Phillack

    St Felicitas and St Piala’s Church, Phillack is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Phillack, Cornwall, England, UK.

    1.9 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Uny's Church, Lelant

    St Uny Church, Lelant, is the Church of England parish church of Lelant, Cornwall, England. It is dedicated to Saint Uny who is also the patron saint of Redruth.

    3.6 km · church of Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Gothian's Church, Gwithian

    St Gothian's Church, Gwithian is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK. Nothing is known about St Gothian, Gocianus or Gwithian.

    3.1 km · church in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Angarrack Viaduct

    Angarrack railway viaduct crosses the valley of the Angarrack River at Angarrack in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

    100 m · viaduct in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Bucket of Blood

    The Bucket of Blood is a public house in Phillack, Hayle, Cornwall, owned by St Austell Brewery and currently tenanted by Nick and Tanya Swanson. It is thought to be named after an incident where the landlord brought up a bucket of blood from the building's well.

    2 km · public house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Towans

    Towan is found in many placenames in Cornwall. However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north-east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a midpoint near Upton.

    2.4 km · dunes between Hayle and Gwithian Beach in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Angarrack

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 196 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 206 km · Bristol (BRS), 229 km
Stations
Hayle railway station, 2.6 km · Lelant railway station, 3.8 km
  • Cardiff → Angarrack
    211 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · £31–41
  • Bristol → Angarrack
    241 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · £26–35
  • London → Angarrack
    397 km · quickest by road, 6h 50m · £40–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Angarrack

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Angarrack. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere's also a helicopter service, using a 10-seater AW169.
  • Get inAdult fare is from £80 each way, day-trip £120 by "Skybus" and from £120 each way, day-trip £220 by helicopter.
  • Get inis at the bottom end of town by the bus station, and a short walk from the ferry terminal.
  • Get inA ferry plies between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, daily from mid-March to October.
  • Get inThe ferry (Scillonian III) leaves Penzance around 9AM to reach the main island of St Mary's at noon; it returns at 4:30PM for 7:15PM.

From Wikivoyage: Penzance, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    120 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    442 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    631 km

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Around it

Next door to Angarrack

  • Hayletown and civil parish in west Cornwall, England2.5 km
  • Gwithianvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3 km
  • Reawlahamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Gwinear-Gwithiancoastal civil parish in west Cornwall, England2.5 km
  • Connor Downsvillage in Cornwall, England, UK1.4 km
  • Phillackvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.9 km