Visit - A6 Gwennap Mining District with Devoran, Perran & Kennall Vale
A6 Gwennap Mining District with Devoran, Perran & Kennall Vale - Lannwenep, Glynn Kenyel ha Teudhla Peran
Great cycle trails through the copper kingdom
For a period in the 19th century Gwennap was described as the “richest square mile in the Old World”. Once the richest of all Cornwall’s mining districts, its fine houses, well-preserved industrial remains and dramatic, alien-looking mining landscapes combine to tell a compelling and colourful story of Cornish mining’s heyday. It is a large and varied Area of fertile countryside, historic mining villages, pretty woods, tranquil river creeks and some of the most impressive industrial landscapes to be found anywhere in the Site. Gwennap is full of contrasts.
‘Tramways thread through this Area, linking its mines with the well-preserved ports at Devoran and Portreath’
Places to visit
An historic preaching pit where John Wesley preached on 18 occasions from 1762 to 1789. Remodelled from a simple depression in the ground into today's terraced 'amphitheatre' in memory of Wesley, in 1806.
The adjoining Busveal Chapel (1836) has pictures, exhibition panels and a visitor centre.
Coast-To-Coast Trail
Redruth & Chasewater Railway Trail
