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Gwinear, Cornwall

Gwinear is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gwinear-Gwithian, in the Cornwall district, in west Cornwall, England, UK.

The place

Gwinear is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gwinear-Gwithian, in the Cornwall district, in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is about two miles (3 km) east of Hayle and overlooks the Angarrack valley. In 1931 the parish had a population of 1234. On 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished to form "Gwinear Gwithian".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gwinear, Cornwall

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.

  1. 01
    St 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.

    3.5 km · church in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Saint Winnear

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

    100 m · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St 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.

    3.1 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St 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.

    3.9 km · church in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Angarrack Viaduct

    Angarrack railway viaduct crosses the valley of the Angarrack River at Angarrack in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

    1.2 km · viaduct in Hayle, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The 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.

    3.2 km · public house in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The 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.

    3.6 km · dunes between Hayle and Gwithian Beach in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Gwinear, Cornwall

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 196 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 205 km · Bristol (BRS), 229 km
Stations
Hayle railway station, 3.5 km
  • Cardiff → Gwinear, Cornwall
    210 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · £31–41
  • Bristol → Gwinear, Cornwall
    240 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £26–35
  • London → Gwinear, Cornwall
    396 km · quickest by road, 6h 53m · £40–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gwinear, Cornwall

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Penzance, 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

    121 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    631 km

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Around it

Next door to Gwinear, Cornwall

  • Hayletown and civil parish in west Cornwall, England3.2 km
  • Gwithianvillage in Cornwall, England, UK3.9 km
  • Angarrackvillage in Cornwall, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Gwinear-Gwithiancoastal civil parish in west Cornwall, England3.3 km
  • Connor Downsvillage in Cornwall, England, UK1.8 km
  • Reawlahamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom1.5 km