Chysauster Ancient Village, Madron and Sancreed

Name: Chysauster Ancient Village
Address: Madron and Sancreed, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7831 757934

#2 among attractions in Madron and Sancreed

Top attraction, Prehistoric site, Historical place, Ruins

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Chysauster Ancient Village, Madron and Sancreed

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Chysauster Ancient Village is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard. To the south east is the remains of a fogou, an underground structure of uncertain function. ()

Alternative names: Built: 100 B.C.E.Abandoned: 300 A.D.Coordinates: 50°9'39"N, 5°32'27"W

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Madron and Sancreed United Kingdom

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Day trips

Chysauster Ancient Village – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Madron Well, Mên-an-Tol, Lanyon Quoit, St Senara's Church.

2.1 miSW
Church
Madron Well, Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
55 min walk • Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel is a scheduled Ancient Monument in the civil parish of Madron, Cornwall, UK. Madron Well Chapel is the ruin of a 12th- or 14th-century chapel dedicated to St Madern and occupies the site of a much older Celtic structure.
2.8 miW
Iconic Bronze Age stone monument
Mên-an-Tol, Madron and Sancreed
72 min walk • The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, UK. It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
2.7 miW
Prehistoric site, Ruins
Lanyon Quoit, Madron and Sancreed
70 min walk • Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result the dolmen is now very different from its original appearance.
2.4 miNW
Church, Gothic architecture
St Senara's Church, Zennor
63 min walk • St Senara's Church, or The Church of Saint Senara, in Zennor Churchtown, Cornwall, England, UK, is the parish church of the parish of Zennor. It is in the Deanery of Penwith, Archdeaconry of Cornwall, and Diocese of Truro.
2.3 miW
Prehistoric site
Boskednan stone circle
60 min walk • Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles northwest of the town of Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
2.4 miW
Archaeological site
Ding Dong mines, Madron and Sancreed
61 min walk • The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area situated in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall, England. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road. They look out over Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount to the south west.
3.1 miS
Art gallery, Museum, Art museum
Penlee House, Penzance
79 min walk • Penlee House is a museum and art gallery located in the town of Penzance in Cornwall, and is home to a great many paintings by members of the Newlyn School, including many by Stanhope Forbes, Norman Garstin, Walter Langley and Lamorna Birch.
2.3 miSW
Church
St Maddern's Church, Newlyn
59 min walk • St Maddern's Church is the parish church of Madron, near Penzance in Cornwall and was once the mother church of Morvah and Penzance. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.4 miNE
Forts and castles
Trink Hill, Carbis Bay
62 min walk • Trink Hill is a 212-metre-high hill that lies between the hamlets of Trink and Cripplesease, near to the village of Nancledra, Cornwall, UK. Trencrom Hill lies one kilometre to the South East.
1.9 miN
Archaeological site
Zennor Quoit, Zennor
49 min walk • Zennor Quoit is a ruined megalithic burial chamber or dolmen, located on a moor about a mile east of the village of Zennor, Cornwall, England, UK. It dates to 2500–1500 BC.
2.8 miW
Memorial
Mên Scryfa, Pendeen
72 min walk • Mên Scryfa is an inscribed standing stone in Cornwall, United Kingdom.