Tehidy Country Park, Camborne

Name: Tehidy Country Park
Address: Camborne, United Kingdom

#3 among attractions in Camborne

Top attraction, Park, Relax in park

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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. The park's facilities include an events field, barbecue hire facilities in a specially designated woodland, outdoor education facilities, a permanent orienteering course and a schools and youth campsite. The manor was a seat for many centuries of the junior branch of the Basset family which gained much wealth from local tin mining. The estate and house were purchased by Cornwall County Council in 1983 and the country park is one of four in Cornwall. ()

Elevation: 174 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 50°14'31"N, 5°18'18"W

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Camborne United Kingdom

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Tehidy Country Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Great Flat Lode, Carn Brea Castle, Carn Brea, Carn Marth.

2.9 miSE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Great Flat Lode, Camborne
75 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 miSE
Historical place, Forts and castles
Carn Brea Castle, Redruth
76 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.
2.9 miSE
Historical place, Prehistoric site
Carn Brea, Camborne
74 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.
4.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Carn Marth
118 min walk • Carn Marth is the name of a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, near Redruth. It is 235 m high, and is well known for the granite quarried from it in the past.
4.2 miW
Island, Lighthouse
Godrevy Lighthouse
108 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.
3.8 miW
Church
St Gothian's Church
97 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.
4.8 miSW
50°10'56"N • 5°21'31"W
Gwinear Pitch & Putt, Hayle
122 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
2 miS
Church
St Martin and St Meriadoc's Church, Camborne
51 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.
1.9 miSE
Playground, Archaeological site
Heartlands Cornwall, Camborne
49 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.
3 miSE
Museum
King Edward Mine, Camborne
78 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.
3.7 miS
Archaeological site
Carwynnen Quoit
96 min walk • Carwynnen Quoit is a dolmen belonging to the Neolithic period, at Carwynnen near Camborne in west Cornwall. It is also known as 'The Giant's Quoit', 'The Giant's Frying Pan', 'Pendarvis Quoit' and 'Pendarves Quoit'.