Redruth - Redruth visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Redruth' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Cornwall.

Redruth (Cornish: Resrudh) town lies near the western end of the Penwith Hundred of Cornwall. The settlement grew on ford (res) across a river in a deep valley, with Carn Brea on one side and Bullers Hill on the other. Just to the south lie shalow lodes of tin and copper, like the Carnkie Great Flat Lode, which made Redruth a good site for mining. Scattered over the surrounding hills are various tumuli and remains of stone age and iron age settlements and hill forts.

The boom years for Redruth were in the 1800's with the expansion of copper mining. However, by the 20th century the mines were exhausted, closed and the region went into decline. Today it is a thriving new town, but not notable on the tourism routes.

Redruth - Tourist Attractions

While Redruth itself is not on the main tourist routes, there are a number of sights of interest around the town. Worth visiting are:

• Carn Brea - 225m high hill just south of, and with good views over, Redruth on top of which is the Basset Memorial to the mining era and unique and quirky Carn Brea Castle Restaurant.
• Tolgus Tin - mining attraction with one of the only remaining working Cornish Stamps in the country.
• Carnkie Great Flat Lode - take a walk round the ruined remains of an old tin mine works.
• Mining Exchange - Grade II listed building in Redruth built in 1800 to the cost of £500 where the local producers sold mineral stock.
• Murdoch House - former chapel built in the 1660s and then used as a prison, where William Murdoch lived between 1782-98 while erecting engines in local tin and copper mines.
• Busveal - old mining settlement found a mile east of Redruth.
• Wheal Peevor - remains of a metalliferous mine located on North Downs about 1.5 miles north-east of Redruth which mined first copper and then tin in the 18th century.
• Tehidy Country Park - once owned by the Basset Tin mining family, the park covers 250 acres and has various activities.
• Dolcoath Mine - a former copper and tin mine in Camborne, once called the 'Queen of Cornish Mines'.
• Four Lanes - small settlement south of Redruth with Four Lanes Mast, a TV transmission mast.
• Portreath Bay - lovely beach north of Redruth at Portreath.

Road: Redruth is on the A30, 10 miles west of Truro, 15 miles from Newquay. It is 18 miles east of Penzance and 15 miles from St Ives.