Carnon Downs
Carnon Downs is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Carnon Downs is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about three miles southwest of Truro on the A39 Truro to Falmouth road.
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Worth seeing in and around Carnon Downs
5 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.
- 01Trelissick Garden
Trelissick is a house and garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England. It is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry, and overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads.
3.9 km · manor House in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Carnon Mine Engine House
Carnon Mine was a tin mine at Restronguet Creek, near the village of Devoran in Cornwall, England. A ruined engine house survives on the north bank of the creek.
1.6 km · engine house in Feock, Cornwall, TR3, UK · Wikipedia - 03Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good
The Friends Meeting House is a meeting house of the Society of Friends, in the hamlet of Come-to-Good on the southern border of the parish of Kea, near Truro in Cornwall. It was also known as Kea Meeting House and Feock Meeting House.
1.4 km · Grade I listed house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of Saint Piran
St Piran's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England. It is part of a united benefice consisting of eight churches, the Eight Saints Cluster, in the parishes of Stithians with Perran-Ar-Worthal and Gwennap.
2.4 km · church in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Trelissick House And Walls Surrounding
Trelissick is a house and garden in the ownership of the National Trust at Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, England. It is located on the B3289 road, just west of King Harry Ferry, and overlooks the estuary known as Carrick Roads.
4 km · historic house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Carnon Downs
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 179 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 203 km · Bristol (BRS), 211 km
- Stations
- Perranwell railway station, 1.8 km
- Cardiff → Carnon Downs194 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · £29–39
- Bristol → Carnon Downs222 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · £25–33
- London → Carnon Downs376 km · quickest by road, 6h 42m · £39–50
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No local-transport research exists yet for Carnon Downs
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 Carnon Downs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Carnon Downs – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Carnon Downs
- Feockcoastal village in Cornwall, UK3.2 km
- Keavillage in Cornwall, England2.5 km
- Perranarworthalvillage in Cornwall, England2.8 km
- Devoranvillage in Cornwall, UK1.3 km
- Playing Placevillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.6 km
- Baldhuvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.9 km