Events, activities and places to
visit
The World Heritage Site covers a
wide variety of landscapes and destinations throughout Cornwall and west Devon
and there are
a great many stimulating walks and visitor attractions to experience.
Below
we offer a number of links to websites that currently provide details of
events, places, and attractions open to the public along with general
tourism information.
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Special events and exhibitions
Follow this link
to find out about events and exhibitions taking place relating to the
World Heritage Site
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Mining heritage attractions
Click
here for details of member sites of the Cornish Mining Attractions
Marketing Association (CMAMA). At CMAMA attractions you can discover
the historical and cultural significance of the World Heritage Site
and explore the exciting legacy of Cornish Mining in all its forms
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Cornish Mining Cultural Events Programme
Click
here for details of our
Cultural Events Programme
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Tourism
Click
here for
the link to Visit
Cornwall the official website of the Cornwall Tourist Board.
Discover what else Cornwall has to offer through its spectacular
environment, history and heritage, its arts and culture. Up to date
information covering accommodation and great places to eat and shop
are given alongside a searchable 'what's on' guide
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Weather
Click
here for a link to the Met Office weather guide for the
South West
Huge celebrations
planned for Portreath Tramroad Bicentenary Heritage Festival
In 1809
Francis Basset, Lord De Dunstanville of Tehidy, laid the first
section of track to the north Cornish port of Portreath which, in
doing so, would create the first tramroad route in Cornwall, linking
the inland copper mines of North Downs and Poldice with the harbour
and major copper smelters of south Wales.
Coal from the Welsh valleys was also to be imported
in great quantity to power Cornish mine engines by return
establishing an important reciprocal trade. The opening of the
tramroad, or plateway as originally built, enabled massive growth in
the volume of both copper ore and coal moving between the two areas,
and the expansion of both the mining and smelting industries as a
result.
To mark the 200th anniversary of this important event, the village
is holding a weekend of exciting activities that kicks off with a free
public performance by the renowned Cornish Songwriters Collective
performing their hugely popular “Cornish Lads” musical drama on Friday
night (31st July). On Saturday afternoon (from 2pm), the
whole village will be invited to appear in historic dress for a
procession led by Cornish fiddlers and complete with pack-horses, a
horse-drawn carriage with Mr Williams of Scorrier House, a descendant of
one of the principal mine owners of the area, onboard, and a traditional
‘serpent dance’ by local children. Visitors are also welcome to
participate and to dress up in nineteenth century style if possible!
For
more information please click
here for the
official press release, and
the Portreath Parish Tram website at:
www.parishtram.co.uk
The bi-centenary celebrations are
part of the Mining Villages Festival,
a nine-day programme of events organised
by villages linked by the Mineral Tramways trails. For more information
please see: www.miningvillagesfestival.org.uk
Phoenix 100
Caradon’s Mining
Heritage, Past and Present
Family events:
2nd - 27th June
Exhibitions:
Stuart House and The Liskeard & District
Museum, Liskeard
Wednesday 10th June
Phoenix 100 Celebration:
Minions Village, near Liskeard
Please click
here
for further details
Exhibitions
In November 2006 the newly inscribed
Cornish Mining World Heritage Site staged an installation of giant
promotional hoardings on Platform 8 of Paddington Station, London.
Follow this link
to the dedicated website for this major display.
Cultural Events Programme
Gonamena
A
timeless story of family and change
Gonamena presents the timeless story of a Cornish family
and community living through an extreme time of irreversible change. Set
in the stunning Gonamena Valley and the mining landscape of the Caradon
Hill area, the story centres around ‘Gonamena’, the home of one family
as they face up to the epic challenge of rapid transformation, and the
accompanying loss and hope, during the mining boom and bust of the late
1800s.
Written by local writer, Simon Parker, the play is based
on real events and evokes the emotional turmoil and extremes of opinion
amongst the frontier-like existence of the many thousands of people that
descended on the valley during the high of the copper ore mining period.
The majority of the actors, creative team and technical
crew are from the immediate Caradon Hill area and have worked alongside
professionals from Cornwall to bring this moving and captivating tale to
life.
Gonamena is directed by Simon Harvey with original music
composed and conducted by Simon Dobson.
It is part of the Darke Visions Festival, running from spring 2009 to
summer 2010, which celebrates the life and legacy of Nick Darke -
Cornwall’s foremost playwright.
www.nickdarke.net/darkevisions
Dates
Saturday 6th June (7.30pm)
Wednesday 10th June (7.30pm)
Thursday
11th June (7.30pm)
Friday 12th
June (7.30pm)
Monday 29th
June (10.00am and 12.30pm)
Tuesday 30th June (10.00am)
Wednesday
1st July (7.30pm)
Monday 20th July (7.30pm)
Tuesday
21st July (7.30pm)
Wednesday
22nd July (7.30pm)
£8.50 (£7 concession) adults, £5.00 children.
Venue
Sterts Theatre, Upton Cross, near Liskeard, Cornwall PL14
5AZ
Box Office: 01579 362382 / 362962
Web:
http://www.sterts.co.uk/
Sterts is an all-weather covered amphitheatre – bring a cushion,
a jumper and a picnic! Or book a 2 course supper and coffee for
just £10 from 6pm. Booking essential 07974 812541
Sterts is located in Upton Cross, near Liskeard, with its
entrance directly off the B3254, Launceston to Liskeard road.
Please click
here to view the
promotional flier.
You may need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file. Download
a free copy by clicking the logo.
(Image copyright: Rob Frost)
Additional date confirmed at the Tiverton Festival,
Devon for the 24 May 2009
Surfing Tommies
Set during the First
World War, this poignant drama by Alan Kent follows the lives of three
members of the Devon and Cornwall Light Infantry, on an incredible
journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders. We meet
mazed beauties, mad male voice choirs and the first surfers. This darkly
mischievous play comments on life in the trenches and current conflicts
around the world. Rich in Cornish dialect and decadence, this new drama
will make you want to get up, hit the waves and hang ten…
To view the complete list of the latest tour dates, please click
here.
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a free copy by clicking the logo.
Previous events
Some of our previous Cultural Events
performances. Please follow the links below to view the promotional fliers.
You may need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these
documents. Download a free copy by clicking the logo.
The Cornish Mining WHS cultural events programme seeks to increase
awareness and appreciation of the distinctiveness of Cornish Mining
culture.
It has been designed to both
contribute to the evolution of this culture, through encouraging
contemporary activity that responds to its cultural inheritance, and to
find new ways of telling its fascinating stories. Through it we
celebrate our ancestors’ contribution to the foundations of the modern
industrial world and the cultural inheritance that they have bequeathed
to us.
World Heritage status means that where we live has
meaning and significance for all humanity - places and peoples that
should be cherished by us all.
Please check
back here regularly for upcoming events.
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Mine & Yours activity
guide and website
The Mine & Yours
activity guide is designed to introduce you to the Cornish Mining
World Heritage Site. It suggests places to see and things to do –
from museums to cycle trails to Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
– along with details about getting there, eating and drinking and
even dog friendliness.
The new World Heritage Site Activity
Guide and the 'Mine Traveller' interactive display
The guide (priced
at £6.99) can be ordered
by post or
purchased from all good bookshops across Cornwall and west Devon.
Find out more @
www.cornishmining.com/mineandyours
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Mining heritage
attractions
 
CMAMA works with
the World Heritage Site to ensure a high quality visitor
experience of mining attractions consistent with World Heritage
Status. All CMAMA member attractions have passed a rigorous
assessment process to ensure you have an enjoyable visit.
At CMAMA attractions you can find out about the historic and
cultural significance of the World Heritage Site and other places
to visit which tell the Cornish Mining story.
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