Wheal Frances

Worth seeing in and around Wheal Frances

One place 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
   St Piran's Round

   Perran Round is an amphitheatre in the hamlet of Rose, midway between the villages of Goonhavern and Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. It is described as the best surviving example of a plen-an-gwary, a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the Ordinalia, or Cornish miracle plays, and Cornish wrestling tournaments.

   2.2 km · Hill fort and plen an gwari in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wheal Frances

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Cardiff (CWL), 172 km · Bristol (BRS), 205 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 215 km

• Cardiff → Wheal Frances

  186 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · £28–38
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• Bristol → Wheal Frances

  216 km · quickest by road, 4h · £24–32
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• London → Wheal Frances

  373 km · quickest by road, 6h 35m · £38–50
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wheal Frances

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

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