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Camborne

Camborne is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England.

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The place

Camborne is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 23,831 and the population of the built-up area was 20,450. The town lies about 2 miles (3 km) inland, but the northern boundary of the parish is the coast, including Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove. The coast is followed by the South West Coast Path. As well as Camborne itself, the parish also includes a number of hamlets.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Camborne

6 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
    Church of Saint Winnear

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

    5.8 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holy Trinity Church And Lamp House Immediately South West

    Holy Trinity Church, Penponds is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Penponds, Cornwall.

    1.3 km · church building in Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Tuckingmill

    All Saints’ Church, Tuckingmill is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Pendarves Street, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall.

    1.3 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Martin and St Meriadocus

    St Martin and St Meriadoc's Church, Camborne is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Camborne, Cornwall.

    100 m · church in Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Penponds Viaduct

    Penponds Viaduct is a railway viaduct which carries the Cornish Main Line west of Camborne in Cornwall, England. It crosses over a small valley containing the southern arm of the Red River, and a minor road known as Viaduct Lane.

    1.8 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tehidy

    Tehidy Country Park is a country park in Illogan in Cornwall, England which incorporates 250 acres of the parkland and estate around Tehidy House, a former manor house of the Tehidy manor. The park's facilities include an events field, barbecue hire facilities in a specially designated woodland, outdoor education facilities, a permanent orienteering course and a schools and youth campsite.

    3.2 km · country park in Illogan in Cornwall, England · 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 Camborne

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 190 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 206 km · Bristol (BRS), 223 km
Stations
Camborne railway station, 400 m · Redruth railway station, 5.7 km
  • Cardiff → Camborne
    205 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · £30–40
  • Bristol → Camborne
    235 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · £25–34
  • London → Camborne
    390 km · quickest by road, 6h 45m · £39–55
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Camborne

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

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    597 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    629 km

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

Around it

Next door to Camborne

  • Redruthtown and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK5.8 km
  • Portreathvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK5.4 km
  • Illoganvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK4.7 km
  • Crowanvillage in the west of Cornwall, UK5.6 km
  • Poolvillage in Carn Brea, Cornwall, England, UK2.7 km
  • Four Lanesvillage in Cornwall, UK4.5 km