ATTRACTIONS IN PL28 8AX
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15.2milesEden Project
Bedelva, St Austell, PL242SG
The Eden Project, set in an amazing location in the heart of Cornwall, gives you a unique view of the world of plants and human society. The Eden Project is the largest greenhouse ever built, the size of 30 football pitches.
1.1milesPrideaux Place
Padstow, PL288RP
A vast stately home with many windows and chimneys, built from grey stone and surrounded by acres of land that is now a deer park. The moment you arrive at Prideaux Place you realise you are somewhere very special indeed.
3.1milesCrealy Great Adventure Park
Trelow Farm, Tredinnick, PL277RA
Visit Cornwall's Crealy Adventure Park, formerly Shires Family Adventure Park for Maximum Fun Guaranteed. Minutes from A30 and A39, between Newquay and Padstow, the Park is the Cornish Tourist Board's 'Top Tourist Attraction' with fantastic rides, slides, animals, fun and adventures.
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8.5miles
Pencarrow
Washaway, Bodmin, PL303AG
This is the home of the Molesworth-St Aubyn's and definitely a lived-in house, not a museum! You will see all the things the family loves best, including their photos, hats on the classical statues and the grandchildren's toys left around - just like your home! The smell of lunch being prepared wafts through from the private quarters, making you anticipate with pleasure your imminent visit to the tearooms for your own meal. The 50 acres of gardens include the Italian Gardens, lovely lawns with magnificent specimen trees, woodland walks and lots of flowering plants and shrubs.
9.5milesNewquay Zoo
Trenance Gardens, Newquay, TR72LZ
Winners of the 'Sustainable Tourism' Award and Finalists in the 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' Award in the Cornwall Tourist Board Awards 2004. Set in lush sub-tropical gardens this is the home of many of the world's endangered species and has earned a reputation as one of the best wildlife parks in the country - and one of the most exciting days-out in the West-Country.
9.6milesBlue Reef Aquarium
Towan Promenade, Newquay, TR71DU
Blue Reef is part of an exciting new generation of wildlife attractions designed to inspire deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural world. Open-top tanks allow close encounters with friendly rays while shallow tide-pools and crashing surf displays recreate the seas' many different aspects.
10.4milesDairy Land Farm World
Summercourt, Newquay, TR85AA
Meet a whole host of cuddly creatures including Piglets, Kittens, Kids and Lambs, Rabbits, Donkeys, Chinchillas and Chipmunks, Hens, Ducks, Pet Rats and Meerkats! 150 Friesian cows are milked every day in our merry-go-round parlour, the first of its kind in the country. It's the very heart of the farm and designed to allow visitors an unequalled view of modern milking as it actually happens.
10.5milesTrerice
Trerice, TR84PG
Elizabethan manor house with fine interiors and delightful garden. Set in a beautiful secluded spot, the house contains fine fireplaces, plaster ceilings, oak and walnut furniture, interesting clocks, needlework and Stuart portraits.
11milesBodmin Jail
Berrycoombe Road, Bodmin, PL312NR
Welcome to Bodmin JailWe are an all weather, family attraction, that includes a licensed bar and restaurant, covered courtyard, with a Civil and Naval Prison housing a museum within its walls split over three levels. It was the last County Jail in Cornwall, eventually closing in 1927.
11.7milesBodmin Military Museum
The Keep, Bodmin, PL311EG
Over 200 years of Regimental history is on display at the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry Museum. The former barracks now houses the regimental museum with uniforms, pictures and medals including one of the country's finest small arms collections.
12.6milesBowood Park
, Camelford, PL329RF
Bowood Park - golf course in Camelford, Cornwall. Contact the golf course on telephone number 01840 213017 for course availability, course rules, member information, golf academy (if available) and green fees at Bowood Park golf course/club.
13milesTintagel Castle
Tintagel Head, Tintagel, PL340HE
On the mainland itself, the gaunt remains of the medieval castle represent only one phase in a long history of occupation. Even before Richard, Earl of Cornwall, built his castle, Tintagel had come to be associated with the conception of King Arthur.
13milesLanhydrock
Lanhydrock, PL305AD
Magnificent late Victorian country house with extensive servants' quarters, gardens and wooded estateOne of the most fascinating and complete late 19th-century houses in England, Lanhydrock is full of period atmosphere. Although the gatehouse and north wing (with magnificent 32yd-long gallery with plaster ceiling) survive from the 17th century, the rest of the house was rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1881.
13.1milesChina Clay Museum - Wheal Martyn
Carthew, St Austell, PL268XG
Just imagine today everything we do is fully automated. .
14.1milesBritish Cycling Museum
The Old Station, Camelford, PL329TZ
A definitive collection and history of cycling in Britain. Over 400 examples of cycles, old cycle repair shops, over 1000 cycling medals, fobs and badges from 1881, an extensive library of books, the first cycle oil lamp, and window displays of gas, candle, battery and oil lighting.
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14.6milesWorld in Miniature
Bodmin Road, Goonhavern, TR49QE
World in Miniature consists of six attractions. Visitors can stroll along famous landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, Taj Mahal in spectacular gardens.
15.6milesRestormel Castle
Restormel, Lostwithiel, PL220BD
Surrounded by a deep moat and perched on a high mound, the huge circular keep of this castle, built at the turn of the 14th century, survives in good condition. Built as a symbol of wealth and status and once home to Edward, the Black Prince, it offers splendid views over the surrounding countryside.
16.4milesCharlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre
Quay Road, Charlestown, St Austell, PL253NJ
Located in a historic china clay building here on the waterfront of the seaport of Charlestown, St. Austell, Cornwall.
16.5milesTrewithen Gardens
Grampound Road, Probus, TR24DD
Enjoy the peace of these magnificent gardens with their outstanding collections of magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons as well as other rare trees and shrubs. These gardens covering some thirty acres are renowned for their magnificent collection of camellias, rhododendrons, magnolias and many rare trees and shrubs which are seldom found elsewhere in Britain.
18.3milesLost Gardens of Heligan
Pentewan, PL266EN
The award winning Lost Gardens of Heligan extend to some eighty acres of superb pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens and a huge, productive vegetable garden, all fast returning to their former glory. Lying at the heart of one of the most mysterious estates in England, Heligan, the former seat of the Tremayne family, is now the site of the largest garden restoration in Europe.
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