Places to explore near Truro

Cornwall's only city, a Georgian county town of cobbled streets gathered beneath the three spires of its Victorian Gothic cathedral.

0.3 km S · Cornwall

The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

1.5 km E

The site of Britain's only tea plantation, grown in a sheltered estuary valley.

4.7 km SE

Wooded estate above the Fal estuary.

5.3 km S

Village dining pub in mid-Cornwall carrying a Trencherman's endorsement.

9 km NE

Reckoned Cornwall's oldest garden, with a six-acre meadow that turns blue with bluebells.

9.2 km S

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

9.4 km SE · spans 4 counties

13th-century creekside church whose subtropical churchyard of palms and shrubs tumbles down to a tidal inlet.

9.4 km S

Roseland hamlet gathered around a waterside church whose subtropical churchyard spills down to a tidal creek.

9.4 km S · Cornwall

Former mining village in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, its ruined engine houses set above the surf of Trevaunance Cove.

11.2 km W · Cornwall

Olga Polizzi's seaside hotel restaurant in the Roseland village of St Mawes.

11.9 km S

Clover-shaped Tudor fort on the Roseland.

12.1 km S

Sailing village on the Roseland Peninsula looking across Carrick Roads, with a Tudor artillery castle guarding the harbour.

12.1 km S · Cornwall

A walled sea pool built in 1959 into Chapel Rock, the flag-topped stack in the middle of Perranporth's beach.

12.2 km NW

Tiny, remote Roseland fishing village folded into a steep-sided valley above an aquamarine cove.

12.3 km SE · Cornwall

Lively harbour town on one of the world's largest natural harbours, with a cobbled main street, beaches and Pendennis Castle.

12.6 km S · Cornwall

Henry VIII's artillery fort on the Falmouth headland, garrisoned through to the Second World War.

12.9 km S

Iconic clifftop tin-mine engine house above Chapel Porth near St Agnes, silhouetted against the sea.

13.7 km W

Countryside restaurant near the dunes and beach of Crantock village.

15.6 km N

Dune-backed beach with offshore Gull Rocks.

15.8 km NW

Quiet unspoilt cove, also called Polly Joke, tucked between headlands near Crantock away from the Newquay crowds.

16.6 km N

Newquay's great Atlantic surf beach.

17.5 km N

The 'lost' Victorian gardens, rediscovered and restored.

17.6 km E

Valley garden with famous cherry-laurel maze.

17.9 km S

A subtropical ravine garden running down to the Helford.

18.5 km S

Working fishing port with a double harbour, narrow lanes and a maze of pastel cottages on the south coast near Heligan.

18.8 km E · Cornwall

Silent wooded tidal creek off the Helford River, made famous by Daphne du Maurier's smuggling romance.

20.9 km S

Chocolate-box village of thatched cottages on the wooded Helford River, its creeks the setting for du Maurier's smuggling tales.

21.3 km SW · Cornwall

A jagged granite outcrop in mid-Cornwall with the shell of a medieval hermitage chapel perched right on top

22 km NE

Georgian china-clay port near St Austell, its unchanged harbour often lined with tall ships and used as a period film set.

22.2 km E · Cornwall

Line of dark slate stacks marching across a wide golden beach below high cliffs, said in legend to be a giant's stepping stones.

23 km N

A line of dark rock stacks standing on a wide sandy beach on the north Cornwall coast, with a steep stair down the cliff

24.1 km N

Giant biome domes of rainforest and Mediterranean planting built inside a reclaimed china-clay pit near St Austell.

24.4 km NE

The white tower off St Ives that Virginia Woolf watched as a child and turned into the distant beacon of her novel To the Lighthouse.

24.9 km W

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

6.7 km SE

Thatched 13th-century waterside inn on a creek off the Fal, with a floating pontoon for arriving boats.

7.6 km S

Working cider farm near Truro, home of Rattler, with free entry, tours, a distillery, shops and farm animals.

7.9 km NW

A plantsman's woodland glade of camellias and magnolias shaped over forty years.

8.9 km E

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

9.4 km SE · spans 24 counties

A National Trust place in Cornwall.

10.2 km SE

A protected stretch of Heritage Coast in Cornwall.

10.5 km NW