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Perranarworthal

Perranarworthal is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Perranarworthal
Perranarworthal · Tim Green from Bradford
The place

Perranarworthal is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about four miles (6.5 km) northwest of Falmouth and five miles (8 km) southwest of Truro. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1,496.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Perranarworthal

3 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
    Carnon 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.

    2.7 km · engine house in Feock, Cornwall, TR3, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church 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.

    400 m · church in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Friends 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.

    4 km · Grade I listed house in Cornwall, 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.

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Getting to Perranarworthal

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 182 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 202 km · Bristol (BRS), 213 km
Stations
Perranwell railway station, 1.1 km
  • Cardiff → Perranarworthal
    197 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · £30–39
  • Bristol → Perranarworthal
    225 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · £25–33
  • London → Perranarworthal
    379 km · quickest by road, 6h 46m · £39–50
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Perranarworthal

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Falmouth (England), 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

    112 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    454 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

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