Cornwall’s mining heritage. mining Cornwall’s A30 to Bodmin bike or horseback and discover discover and horseback or bike N 0 1 km 1 Mile Explore 60km of trails on foot, foot, on trails of 60km Explore South West Coast Path Blackwater copper ore out/coal in Mawla Cambrose Portreath A390 to Truro Wheal Rose Wheal Busy Bridge Scorrier Radnor Tehidy Treleigh Mount Ambrose Illogan 5 St Day Poldice Valley Coombe Twelveheads Redruth Pool 2 Bissoe ride cycle walk walk Carharrack 1 Point Mills Mining Trails Mining Carn Brea Carn Marth Carnon Downs 6 A30 to Penzance Brea Camborne Frogpool Piece Carnkie Lanner Devoran Perranwell Beacon Central Cornwall’s 7 Mining Trails Network Four Lanes 4 copper ore out/timber and coal in Perran Foundry The mining trails network centred around Troon Camborne and Redruth offers 37.5 miles (60km) of adventure and discovery for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. Enjoy: • Days out discovering something new at every turn - varied To Penryn and Falmouth landscapes, amazing views, exceptional wildlife and remarkable remains of the area’s 19th century mining heyday • Fresh air and outdoor exercise for healthy bodies and minds • Green, sustainable, traffic-free travel to school or work Guide to the trails Heritage attractions • Wheelchair and buggy-friendly access to countryside What to see and do on the mining trails Key to symbols and historic sites Tehidy Trail The Cornwall Centre Trail safety Tracking history This map is based upon the Use this map to plan your route, see where to park 1 01209 216760 www.cornwall.gov.uk/CornwallCentre Trunk or Main road Ordnance Survey material with Go green! Please take litter home The seven mining trails have been Portreath Branchline Trail the permission of Ordnance Survey and find facilities and attractions. On the way you on behalf of the Controller of Her with you and use public transport created over the years by the Gwennap Pit Secondary road will find historic towns and villages and fascinating Portreath Branchline Trail (Subject to Creation Order) Majesty’s Stationery Office when you can. Take extra care Mineral Tramways Heritage Project, 2 01209 820013 © Crown copyright. heritage and landscape attractions. You will also at road crossings where trails are with the network completed in Tresavean Trail Dual carriageway Unauthorised reproduction infringes Tolgus Mill and Redruth Old Cornwall Society Museum Crown copyright and may lead to be able to hire bikes, use riding centres and enjoy no longer traffic free. Please stay 2009. Some follow as closely as Great Flat Lode Trail 3 01209 215185 Road generally more than 4m prosecution or civil proceedings. well-deserved breaks and refreshments in pubs on the paths waymarked with an possible the routes of Cornwall’s (100049047) 2009 and cafes, many offering quality local produce. engine house symbol. first tramway and first real railway, Tolgus Trail (To be constructed) St Day Old Church Road generally less than 4m constructed to transport ore and 4 01209 821124 Coast to Coast Trail Other road, drive or track vital supplies from and to the mines Please play your part to help All are linked to provide a great The Shire Horse Farm & Carriage Museum and the ports of Portreath and Redruth & Chasewater Trail protect the environment by using choice of journey options, including 5 01209 713606 Information Devoran. All lace their way through public transport systems if you circular detours to special places one of the world’s greatest can. Main line trains run to both like the summits of Carn Brea and Bike & horse riding centres Cornish Mines & Engines (NT) Parking concentrations of historic mine 6 01209 315027 www.nationaltrust.org.uk Camborne and Redruth stations Carn Marth. Many of the trails are on buildings. Use the mining trails to Railway station (enquiries 08457 484950) and bus public bridleways where the Elm Farm Cycle Centre transport yourself into the past in a 1 King Edward Mine and Mineral Tramway Exhibition information is available on 01872 unauthorised use of motor 01209 891498 www.thebikebarn.org 7 01209 614681 www.kingedwardmine.co.uk refreshingly different way and Bus station 322142 www.cornwall.gov.uk/ vehicles is not permitted. discover the crucial part played by Bike Chain Bissoe Bike Hire buses 01209 719988. the mines and the people who 2 01872 870341 www.cornwallcyclehire.com Bike hire Be considerate to others and worked in them. Some mining trails are largely other land management 3 Wheal Buller Riding School Riding centre traffic-free and flat, so perfect for industries. Cyclists – give way to 01209 211852 www.cornish-riding-holidays.co.uk walkers who prefer gentle walkers and horses, warn other Refreshments The Track - BMX and MTB Dirt Park www.cornishmining.org.uk gradients and families with users of your approach and if in 4 01209 211073 www.the-track.co.uk Country park children learning how to ride bikes. doubt, slow down. Dog owners – Others have steep sections ideal take a bag with you, use dog bins Livery Yard Viewpoint for mountain-bikers. and keep your dog under control 5 01872 540524 and on a lead between 1 March Aldridge Cycles Important mine and 31 July. Photography by Charles Francis, Jason Eslick, Rose Lewis, Kirstin Prisk and Cornwall Council 6 01209 714970 www.thecyclepeople.com Wildlife illustrations by Andy Darlow Welcome to the Mining Trails guide The Coast to Coast Trail The Great Flat Lode Trail The Tehidy Trail The rich mining area of Cornwall’s central mining The Coast to Coast Trail closely follows Length of trail: 11 miles (17.5 kms) In the 1860s, when many copper mines Where to park: South Wheal Frances, The Tehidy Trail is based on the district now benefits from a 60km network of multi Dolcoath Mine and at King Edward Mine activity trails. New trails have been created to link the line of two transport routes. The early Nature of trail: Generally level and mostly were closing, a ‘lode’ of tin ore was existing network of tracks and trails Museum (where you can visit a free in with existing routes such as the Coast to Coast horse-worked Portreath tramroad off-road. discovered to the South of Carn Brea in through Tehidy Country Park, former and the Great Flat Lode Trails and, being mainly exhibition all about the Mineral Tramways). opened in 1812. This was the first surface Where to park: Portreath Beach Car Park, an area that previously worked copper home of Sir Francis Basset, Lord de traffic-free, offer improved and safer access to tramroad in Cornwall. It gave the copper Elm Farm, Coast to Coast Cycle Hire, Cambrose deposits. This lode, over 2 miles long, Links in with: Deviate up onto Carn Brea to Dunstanville, whose memorial crowns schools, places of work, local facilities, historic enjoy the views and/or join up with the Portreath settlements and visitor attractions. The network of mines around Scorrier and St Day a (free parking for all), Bike Chain Bissoe Bike Hire was also flatter than most, lying at an Carn Brea. Branchline Trail or the Redruth & Chasewater trails also offers people a unique opportunity to transport route to the sea at Portreath. (free parking to customers of café or cycle hire), angle of about 30 degrees instead of Railway Trail and link in with the rest of the access a wide area that is rich in mining heritage. Grenna Lane car park Carnon Valley. Length of trail: 2.5 miles (4km) The other was the Redruth & Chasewater the usual 70 degrees from the horizontal Mineral Tramways network of trails. Railway. This was built from 1825 and Links in with: The Wheal Busy Loop, the Tolgus – hence its name, the “Great Flat Lode”. Nature of trail: Some steep sections but Points of interest: The Great Flat Lode Trail linked the town of Redruth and mines Trail and the Redruth & Chasewater Railway The tin mines here were some of the otherwise relatively flat. Trail which in turn links in with the rest of the follows part of the line of the Basset Mine around Gwennap, then the richest copper most successful in the late 19th Century Where to park: East Lodge Car Park, Tehidy network of trails. Tramway, built to carry tin ore from the mines producing area in the world, to the port and produced over 90,000 tons of tin along the side of the valley for processing at Country Park or in Portreath. Points of interest: The Coast to Coast Trail of Devoran on the south coast. concentrate. The mines here closed Wheal Basset Stamps. The remains of Cornwall’s Links in with: The Portreath Branchline Trail provides the user with a unique opportunity about 1920. Since then the area has last tin smelter can be visited near Carnkie. and the Coast to Coast Trail. to literally ride or walk across Cornwall in a day, Carn Brea, once an ancient fortified hill remained relatively undeveloped and it Points of interest: This multi-use trail through from one coast to another as the trail links the settlement can be climbed for superb panoramic now contains some of Cornwall’s finest the parkland setting of Tehidy links with the historic mining harbour of Portreath on the North views which will include the tall steel headgear remains of engine houses, tin dressing Portreath Branchline Trail and enables users Much of the trails network Some innovative engineering coast and port of Devoran on the South coast. of South Crofty, Cornwall’s last tin mine. closely follows the tramway techniques have been Enjoy spectacular scenery and a variety of wildlife floors and other mining structures. to either visit Portreath and pick up the and railway routes once used to incorporated into the project as the trail passes through ancient woodland The Trail not only runs south of Coast to Coast Trail or head towards Camborne transport ore and vital supplies including the use of recycled and link up with the Great Flat Lode Trail.