Why this ride
From Hayle it runs 65 km to Hayle; allow about 1 h 23 of riding. The stops in between: Pool village and East Pool Mine, Devoran and Perran and back through Pool village and East Pool Mine.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts and Devoran and Perran
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 65 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 23
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts
Tregonning Hill is a low, rounded granite dome above Germoe, and on its slopes in the middle of the eighteenth century a Plymouth chemist named William Cookworthy found white clay of a quality that Europe had never produced. He recognised it as kaolin, the secret of Chinese porcelain, and the find began an industry that eventually shifted to the larger deposits around St Austell. The ground around Tregonning and Gwinear is a landscape of old tin and copper workings, engine houses, abandoned stacks and small fields enclosed by stone hedges. The whole Cornish mining landscape was listed by UNESCO in 2006 and these districts are part of it.
Read the complete Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts is where the day begins. Next is Pool village and East Pool Mine.
2. Pool village and East Pool Mine
Pool is the place where Cornwall's mining past is easiest to see, because it lies along the main road between Camborne and Redruth, and the engine houses are right beside it. East Pool Mine, now cared for by the National Trust, was one of the richest tin mines in the county, and it kept working until 1945. Two huge beam engines still stand under their roofs, and the big granite engine house, with its tall chimney and arched openings, dominates the village. It is one of the sites that make up the Cornish Mining Landscape, inscribed by UNESCO in 2006.
Read the complete Pool village and East Pool Mine write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pool village and East Pool Mine comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Devoran and Perran.
3. Devoran and Perran
Devoran is a quiet village at the head of Restronguet Creek, a tidal arm of the Fal estuary south of Truro, and it takes a little imagination to see it as the busy industrial port it once was. In the nineteenth century, the Redruth and Chasewater Railway brought copper ore down from the mines to quays here, where ships loaded it for smelters in South Wales and returned with coal. The remains of the quays, ore hoppers and old warehouses are still visible along the shore, and the village is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, listed by UNESCO in 2006.
Read the complete Devoran and Perran write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach Devoran and Perran. Next is back through Pool village and East Pool Mine.
4. back through Pool village and East Pool Mine
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pool village and East Pool Mine write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Pool village and East Pool Mine, late in the day. Next is Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts.
5. Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts to Pool village and East Pool Mine
Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts → Pool village and East Pool Mine is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pool village and East Pool Mine to Devoran and Perran
Pool village and East Pool Mine → Devoran and Perran is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Devoran and Perran to back through Pool village and East Pool Mine
Devoran and Perran → back through Pool village and East Pool Mine is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pool village and East Pool Mine to Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts
back through Pool village and East Pool Mine → Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.