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Baldhu

Baldhu is a village and parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The place

Baldhu is a village and parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Kea.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Baldhu

3 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
    Billy Bray's Three Eye Chapel

    Billy Bray's Three Eye Chapel is a Grade II listed Methodist chapel near Baldhu, in the civil parish of Kea, in Cornwall, UK. The chapel is one of the three chapels left that Billy Bray built. The chapel is located about five miles from Truro and one mile from Chacewater near a crossroads.

    900 m · chapel in Kea, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Engine House Killifreth (Hawke's Shaft)

    Killifreth Mine was a mine near Chacewater in Cornwall, England, producing at various periods copper, tin and arsenic. The engine house over Hawke's Shaft is a Grade II listed building; it has the tallest surviving chimney in Cornwall.

    3.9 km · ruins of the engine house which originally housed the 80" (later 85") pumping engine used for draining Hawke's Shaft · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Truro and Penwith College

    Truro and Penwith College is a further education college in Cornwall, England.

    2.4 km · college in Cornwall, 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 Baldhu

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 179 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 207 km · Bristol (BRS), 211 km
Stations
Perranwell railway station, 3.5 km · Truro Aerodrome, 3.7 km
  • Cardiff → Baldhu
    194 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · £29–39
  • Bristol → Baldhu
    223 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · £25–33
  • London → Baldhu
    378 km · quickest by road, 6h 42m · £39–50
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Baldhu

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 Baldhu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNumerous ferries serve Falmouth, converging on the Prince of Wales Pier ferry terminal in the town centre.
  • Get inService is generally hourly but may skip a crossing when the tide is extremely low, when the ferries can't dock.
  • Get inTruro ferries run at all states of the tide, but have an alternative landing point in Truro during very low tides, when the ferry company provides a free shuttle bus to take you to the town centre.
  • Get inJust north of Falmouth, the King Harry Ferry runs year round as a chain-ferry providing a short-cut for cars crossing the Fal river.
  • Get inDetails for all of the above (along with connecting ferry services from St.

From Wikivoyage: Falmouth (England), 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

    108 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    450 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    593 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    625 km

If you know how people move in Baldhu – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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