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St Agnes Hertitage Trail
  • The Walks
    • Walk 1 - St.Agnes Village Trail
    • Walk 2 - St Agnes Beacon
    • Walk 3 - Porthtowan, Banns Vale, Mount Hawke and Chapel Porth
    • Walk 4 - Wheal Rose, The Poldice Plateway and Mawla
    • Walk 5 - Mount Hawke
    • Walk 6 - Mithian
    • Walk 7 - Wheal Coates, Chapel Porth, Wheal Lawrence Valley and Goonvrea
    • Walk 8 - Water Lane, Wheal Butson and Jericho Valley
    • Walk 9 - Jericho Valley and Cross Coombe
    • Walk 10 - Blackwater
 
 

Ten Walks

Take a step through time...

St Agnes Village Trail

  • St. Agnes Miners' and Mechanics' Institute dating from 1893
  • Churchtown, the ancient heart of the village
  • The Anglican church built in 1848 but with a tower that dates back to an earlier church built in 1484
  • The nine stepped cottages of Stippy Stappy built around 1841
  • The old school and the St. Agnes Coastguard headquarters
  • The Garden of Rest and the ex-mortuary gate house

St Agnes Beacon walk

  • The Beacon summit at 192 metres (628 feet), the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar ('trig point'), and panoramic views of the coast
  • The remains of the Wheal Coates mine, possibly the most photographed mine buildings in Cornwall
  • St Agnes Head and Bawden Rocks
  • Trevaunance Cove and the remains of a harbour
  • The Driftwood Spars public house
  • The Wheal Friendly mine

Porthtowan, Banns Vale, Mount Hawke and Chapel Porth

  • The remains of a mining engine house at Taylors Shaft where the first electrically driven centrifugal pumping system in Cornwall was installed
  • Banns Vale with its clear view of St.Agnes Beacon and the famous engine house of Wheal Coates on the skyline
  • The beach at Chapel Porth
  • Great Wheal Charlotte, once an important copper producing mine

Wheal Rose, the Poldice Plateway and Mawla

  • North Treskerby mine, productive from the 1700s to about 1830
  • Wheal Rose and 'The Old Forge'
  • The Poldice Plateway, a mineral tramroad that ran from Portreath harbour to the mines of Scorrier & St Day, made of cast-iron plates pinned to granite setts, and carrying three ton capacity horse drawn wagons
  • Mawla and the hamlet of Manor Parsley

Mount Hawke

  • Tywarnhale Mine
  • The Navvy Pit, part of Wheal Music which was the largest open-cast copper mine in Europe
  • Mount Hawke village

Mithian Walk

  • Mithian village
  • The 16th century Miners Arms pub
  • The Rose-in-Vale, a Georgian house built c.1770
  • Harmony cot, home of John Opie RA (1761-1807)

Coates, Chapel Porth, Wheal Lawrence Valley and Goonvrea

  • The whim engine house at Wheal Coates, and on the lower cliff path, the Towanroath shaft and the pumping engine-house
  • The Giant Bolster's footprint
  • Chapel Porth beach
  • Wheal Lawrence valley

Water Lane, Wheal Butson and Jericho Valley

  • Water Lane and its stream
  • The Promised Land
  • The railway viaduct that once formed part of the Chacewater to Newquay spur line
  • Jericho Valley, now a pretty woodland walk but once an active tin mining area
  • The very last tin producing establishment in Cornwall, the Blue Hills Tin Streams
  • Trevaunance Cove and beach

Jericho Valley and Cross Coombe

  • The Blue Hills Mine engine-house and its chimney
  • Jericho Valley
  • The airfield
  • A panorama of St Agnes village against a backdrop of the Beacon

Blackwater

  • The Blackwater Institute and John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911)
  • The Chacewater to Newquay railway branch line
  • The still unsolved double murder of 1920
  • Wheal Concorde mine
  • The Blackwater Methodist Chapel

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