Ponsanooth
Ponsanooth is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Ponsanooth is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about 4 mi (6.4 km) southeast of Redruth and 2.5 mi (4.0 km) northwest of Penryn on the A393 road Redruth to Falmouth road. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 1184.
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Worth seeing in and around Ponsanooth
4 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.
- 01Falmouth University
Falmouth University is a specialist public university for the creative industries based in Falmouth and Penryn, Cornwall, UK. Founded as Falmouth School of Art in 1902, it was later known as Falmouth College of Art and Design and then Falmouth College of Arts until 2012, when the university college was officially granted full university status by the Privy Council. The university is located across two campuses, in the towns of Penryn and Falmouth.
3.2 km · university in Cornwall, UK · Wikipedia - 02Camborne School of Mines
Camborne School of Mines is a school of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Exeter. Its research and teaching is related to the understanding and management of the Earth's natural processes, resources and the environment.
3.1 km · college in Cornwall, England · Wikipedia - 03Penryn Campus
Penryn Campus is a university campus in Penryn, Cornwall, England, UK. The campus is occupied by two university institutions: Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, with the shared buildings, facilities and services provided by Falmouth Exeter Plus. Located on a site bought in 1998, the campus was developed via the Combined Universities in Cornwall scheme with finance from the EU and the UK Government and was opened in 2004.
3.2 km · campus of the University of Exeter at Tremough, in Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church 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.
2.4 km · church in Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ponsanooth
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 184 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 201 km · Bristol (BRS), 216 km
- Stations
- Penryn railway station, 3.7 km · Perranwell railway station, 3.1 km
- Cardiff → Ponsanooth198 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · £30–39
- Bristol → Ponsanooth227 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £25–33
- London → Ponsanooth381 km · quickest by road, 6h 48m · £39–50
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ponsanooth
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 Ponsanooth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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