Penponds Viaduct, Camborne

#8 among attractions in Camborne

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Penponds Viaduct is a railway viaduct which carries the Cornish Main Line west of Camborne in Cornwall, England. It crosses over a small valley containing the southern arm of the Red River, and a minor road known as Viaduct Lane. ()

Opened: 1888 (136 years ago)Length: 338 ftCoordinates: 50°12'18"N, 5°19'22"W

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Camborne United Kingdom

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Penponds Viaduct – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Great Flat Lode, Carn Brea Castle, Carn Brea, Tehidy Country Park.

3.6 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Great Flat Lode, Camborne
91 min walk • The Great Flat Lode is a mineral-bearing body of rock under the southern granite slopes of Carn Brea south of Camborne in west Cornwall, England, UK.
3.6 miE
Historical place, Forts and castles
Carn Brea Castle, Redruth
93 min walk • Carn Brea Castle on Carn Brea is a 14th-century grade II listed granite stone building which was extensively remodelled in the 18th century as a hunting lodge in the style of a castle for the Basset family. The building is in private use as a restaurant.
3.4 miE
Historical place, Prehistoric site
Carn Brea, Camborne
88 min walk • Carn Brea is a civil parish and hilltop site in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of Carn Brea including Bosleake and Church Coombe was 8,013 at the 2011 census. The hilltop site is situated approximately one mile southwest of Redruth.
2.7 miN
Park
Tehidy Country Park, Camborne
68 min walk • Tehidy Country Park is a country park in Illogan in Cornwall, England which incorporates 250 acres of the parkland and estate around Tehidy House, a former manor house of the Tehidy manor.
4.3 miNW
Island, Lighthouse
Godrevy Lighthouse
110 min walk • Godrevy Lighthouse was built in 1858–1859 on Godrevy Island in St Ives Bay, Cornwall. Standing approximately 300 metres off Godrevy Head, it marks the Stones reef, which has been a hazard to shipping for centuries.
4.1 miW
Nightlife
The Bucket of Blood, Hayle
105 min walk • The Bucket of Blood is a public house in Phillack, Hayle, Cornwall, owned by St Austell Brewery. It is thought to be named after an incident where the landlord brought up a bucket of blood from the building's well, as a murdered smuggler had been dropped there and the name has been recognised as one of the quirkiest in the country.
3 miW
Church
St Gothian's Church
77 min walk • St Gothian's Church, Gwithian is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in Gwithian, Cornwall, England, UK. Nothing is known about St Gothian, Gocianus or Gwithian.
2.2 miSW
50°10'56"N • 5°21'31"W
Gwinear Pitch & Putt, Hayle
58 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
1.1 miNE
Church
St Martin and St Meriadoc's Church, Camborne
28 min walk • St Martin and St Meriadoc's Church, Camborne is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Camborne, Cornwall.
2.4 miNE
Playground, Archaeological site
Heartlands Cornwall, Camborne
63 min walk • Heartlands Cornwall, often known simply as Heartlands, is a World Heritage Site Gateway and visitor attraction in Pool, Cornwall, England, UK. It has been dubbed as Cornwall's first free cultural playground. It was developed at South Crofty's Robinson Shaft and spread over 19 acres in the former mining heart of Cornwall.
2.3 miE
Museum
King Edward Mine, Camborne
59 min walk • The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine wholly owned by Cornwall Council. At the end of the 19th century students at the Camborne School of Mines spent much of their time doing practical mining and tin dressing work in the local tin mines.