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Playing Place

Playing Place is a village southwest of Truro, Cornwall, England.

Playing Place
Playing Place · Giles Laurent
The place

Playing Place is a village southwest of Truro, Cornwall, England. It is to the east of the A39 road. The name derives from Cornish 'plain an gwarry', an open-air performance area used historically for entertainment and instruction.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Playing Place

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 177 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 204 km · Bristol (BRS), 209 km
  • Cardiff → Playing Place
    192 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · £29–39
  • Bristol → Playing Place
    220 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · £24–33
  • London → Playing Place
    375 km · quickest by road, 6h 39m · £38–50
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No local-transport research exists yet for Playing Place

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 Playing Place. 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.

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    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

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  2. 02
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    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    271 km
  3. 03
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    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    454 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    594 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    627 km

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