Around Redruth
From any of the car parks, make your way to Fore Street, the main street of Redruth. Walk up to a junction (the railway station is down to the right) and take the middle branch, to the left of the Wesley Centenary Memorial Building and signposted 'To Victoria Park'. This is Wesley Street. In just a few paces turn right on Sea View Terrace; the chimney stack of the Pednandrea Mine is up to the left a few paces along the road. Pass Basset Street on the right and, where streets cross, go left, all the way up Raymond Road to a T-junction with Sandy Lane.
Cross the road with care, then follow the track opposite, signposted 'Public Bridleway' and 'Grambler Farm'. Go through a wooden gate by the farm and continue to an open area. Bear left here and follow a path between hedges. Shortly join a track and head onwards to a clearing. Bear left here to take the path on the left. At a junction with a track turn left.
Look to your right for a field gateway with breeze block gateposts and go through it. Cross a stile at the next gate and then keep straight ahead across the next field. Cross two more stiles and continue between wire fences by a house to a final stile. Walk down a lane to a junction of surfaced roads and follow the road opposite for 100yds (91m) to 'Gwennap Pit'.
Follow the road away from Gwennap Pit. Ignore the first few turn-offs and in about 300yds (274m), just after some barns on the left, turn right along a broad track, signposted 'Public Bridleway'. Where the track swings sharply to the right, head straight up a path between hedges. Head on over a crossing then, at a second crossing beside a ruined building, turn right along a stony track to the prominent summit of Carn Marth.
Pass a flooded quarry on your left, then follow a rocky path round to the right of a trig point and on along the fenced-in rim of a deep quarry. Keep left at a fork and go down a track to reach a surfaced road. Turn left and in 30yds (27m) turn left along a track by two large tanks. Follow the track to a T-junction with the main road at a house called Tara. Cross the road with great care, turn right and continue for 300yds (180m).
Ignore the first public bridleway, after about 150yds (137m), and then go left down a path between houses, signposted 'Public Bridleway'. Continue past a lane on the right to reach a junction with Trefusis Road. Turn right and then left into Raymond Road. Turn right at the next crossroads into Sea View Terrace. Turn left down Wesley Street and on into Fore Street.
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- Free TV
- WiFi available
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- Ice pack facility
- BBQ
- Picnic Area
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