Connor Downs
Connor Downs is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the civil parish of Gwinear-Gwithian.
Connor Downs is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the civil parish of Gwinear-Gwithian. It is situated approximately two miles (3 km) east of Hayle and about two miles south-southeast of Gwithian churchtown. The name "Connor" was originally the name of Connerton, the medieval manor of the parish of Gwithian.
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Worth seeing in and around Connor Downs
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.
- 01St 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.
3.8 km · church in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of Saint Winnear
St Gwinear's Church, Gwinear is a Grade I listed church in the Church of England in Gwinear, Cornwall.
1.9 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St 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.
2.9 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St 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.
2.2 km · church in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Angarrack Viaduct
Angarrack railway viaduct crosses the valley of the Angarrack River at Angarrack in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
1.4 km · viaduct in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06The 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.
3 km · public house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07The 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.
2.5 km · dunes between Hayle and Gwithian Beach in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Penponds 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.
3.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Connor Downs
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 195 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 207 km · Bristol (BRS), 228 km
- Stations
- Hayle railway station, 3.9 km
- Cardiff → Connor Downs209 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · £30–41
- Bristol → Connor Downs239 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · £26–34
- London → Connor Downs396 km · quickest by road, 6h 47m · £40–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for Connor 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 Connor Downs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Connor Downs
- Hayletown and civil parish in west Cornwall, England3.8 km
- Gwithianvillage in Cornwall, England, UK2.1 km
- Angarrackvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.4 km
- Gwinear-Gwithiancoastal civil parish in west Cornwall, England1.6 km
- Reawlahamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom3.1 km
- Phillackvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom2.9 km