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Gunnislake

Gunnislake is a large village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Gunnislake
Gunnislake · Richard Szwejkowski
The place

Gunnislake is a large village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Tamar Valley approximately ten miles (16 km) north of Plymouth The first woman cabinet minister in the British Empire, Mary Ellen Smith, was born here in 1863.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gunnislake

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
    Cotehele

    Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-stone manor house on the banks of the River Tamar that has been little changed over five centuries.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hingston Down

    Hingston Down is a hill not far from Gunnislake in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the subject of an old rhyme, due to the prolific tin mining that formerly took place in the area: Hingston Down well ywroughtIs worth London Town dearly bought.

    2.4 km · hill in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cotehele clock

    The Cotehele clock is situated at Cotehele House, Calstock, Cornwall. It is the earliest turret clock in the United Kingdom still working in an unaltered state and in its original position.

    3.3 km · medieval clock in Cotehele House, Calstock, Cornwall · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Andrew, Calstock

    St Andrew's is the Anglican parish church of Calstock in Cornwall and dates to the 14th century. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.5 km · 14th century Anglican parish church of Calstock in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    New Bridge

    Gunnislake Newbridge or New Bridge is a large stone arch bridge in the west of England, crossing the River Tamar between Gunnislake, Cornwall and Gulworthy, Devon. The bridge is located in a narrow river valley with woodland and high ground on either side.

    500 m · Grade I listed bridge in Cornwall/Devon, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Paul's Church

    St Paul's Church is a Church of England Church in Gulworthy, Devon and is one of the central buildings in the disparate parish, together with the neighbouring school. It is a Grade II listed building.

    1.9 km · church in Gulworthy, Devon, 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.

Go there

Getting to Gunnislake

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 115 km · Bristol (BRS), 142 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 231 km
Stations
Calstock railway station, 2.9 km · Gunnislake railway station, 1 km · Morwellham Quay, 2.5 km
  • Cardiff → Gunnislake
    129 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · £22–30
  • Bristol → Gunnislake
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £18–24
  • London → Gunnislake
    306 km · quickest by road, 5h 42m · £32–42
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gunnislake

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 Gunnislake. 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

    79 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    206 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    476 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    599 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gunnislake

  • Calstockvillage and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK3 km
  • Gulworthyvillage in Devon, England, UK1.8 km
  • Harrowbarrowvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.8 km
  • Albastonhamlet in Cornwall, England, UK1.6 km
  • Drakewallsvillage in Cornwall1.3 km
  • Metherellvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.3 km