Stithians
Stithians, also known as St Stythians, is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Stithians, also known as St Stythians, is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the middle of the triangle bounded by Redruth, Helston and Falmouth. Its population (2001) is 2,004, increasing to 2,101 at the 2011 census An electoral ward in the same name also exists but stretches north to St Day. The population here also at the 2011 census was 5,023.
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Worth seeing in and around Stithians
5 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.
4 km · university in Cornwall, UK · Wikipedia - 02Carnmenellis
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.
3.8 km · hill in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Camborne 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.
3.9 km · college in Cornwall, England · Wikipedia - 04Stithians Reservoir
Stithians Reservoir is a reservoir situated just under a mile to the west of the village of Stithians, Cornwall, England, UK.
2.2 km · reservoir in Cornwall, England · Wikipedia - 05Penryn 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.
4 km · campus of the University of Exeter at Tremough, in Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stithians
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 186 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 201 km · Bristol (BRS), 218 km
- Cardiff → Stithians201 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · £30–40
- Bristol → Stithians230 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · £26–34
- London → Stithians384 km · quickest by road, 6h 50m · £40–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stithians
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 Stithians. 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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