Redruth
Redruth is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England.
Redruth is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It lies approximately 9 miles (14 km) west of Truro, 12 miles (19 km) east of St Ives, 18 miles (29 km) north-east of Penzance and 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Falmouth. At the 2021 census, the population of the parish was 15,626 and the population of the built-up area was 15,455.
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Worth seeing in and around Redruth
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.
- 01Carnmenellis
Carnmenellis Hill gives its name to the area of west Cornwall in England, between Redruth, Helston and Penryn. The hill itself is situated approximately three miles south of Redruth.
5.8 km · hill in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02All Saints' Church, Tuckingmill
All Saints’ Church, Tuckingmill is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Pendarves Street, Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall.
4.5 km · church in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Stithians Reservoir
Stithians Reservoir is a reservoir situated just under a mile to the west of the village of Stithians, Cornwall, England, UK.
5.9 km · reservoir in Cornwall, England · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01East Pool Mine
Pool TR15 3NP (leave A30 at Camborne East or Redruth junctions.
- 02King Edward Mine
King Edward Mine, Troon, Camborne TR14 9HW (Outside of Camborne near to the village of Troon off the A30), info@kingedwardmine.co.uk.
- 03Wheal Basset Stamps
Ruins of the former Wheal Basset stamphouses and tin processing plant.
- 04Tolgus Tin
This machinery, set up in 1865, pulverised mining waste which still contained useful amounts of tin.
- 05Carn Brea
From Wikivoyage: Redruth, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Mineral Tramways Trails. Explore Cornwall's mining heritage by cycling or walking along the mineral tramways trails, there are many ruins of former engine houses and tin processing facilities which stand tall within the landscape.
From Wikivoyage: Redruth, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Carn Brae Castle
Middle Eastern restaurant in a castle that was built in 1379, and was later remodelled.
From Wikivoyage: Redruth, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Redruth
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 185 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 207 km · Bristol (BRS), 218 km
- Stations
- Camborne railway station, 5.7 km · Redruth railway station, 100 m
- Cardiff → Redruth200 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · £29–39
- Bristol → Redruth229 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · £25–33
- London → Redruth385 km · quickest by road, 6h 41m · £39–50
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Redruth
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 Redruth. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Falmouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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