Truro

Truro is a City in the county of Cornwall.

Truro postcode: TR1 2

Retail in Truro

There are great places to visit near Truro including some great hiking areas, country parks, towns, hills, villages, historic buildings and airports.

The area close to Truro boasts some of the best hiking areas including Tehidy.

Truro has some unmissable country parks nearby like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Towns to visit near Truro include Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Kit Hill Country Park is a great place to visit close to Truro if you like hills.

The area around Truro features a number of interesting villages including Cremyll, and Botallack.

The area close to Truro boasts some of the best historic buildings including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

The area around Truro features a number of interesting airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Truro History

There are some historic monuments around Truro:

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History of Truro

By the start of the 14th century Truro was an important port, due to its inland location away from invaders, prosperity from the fishing industry, and a new role as one of Cornwall’s stannary towns for assaying and stamping tin and copper from Cornish mines. The Black Death brought a trade recession and an exodus of the population that left the town in a very neglected state. Trade gradually returned and the town regained prosperity in the Tudor period. Local government was awarded in 1589 by a new charter granted by Elizabeth I, giving Truro an elected mayor and control over the port of Falmouth. During the Civil War in the 17th century, Truro raised a sizeable force to fight for the king and a royalist mint was set up. Defeat by the Parliamentary troops came in 1646 and the mint was moved to Exeter. Later in the century, Falmouth was awarded its own charter, giving it rights to its harbour and starting a long rivalry between the two towns. The dispute was settled in 1709 with control of the River Fal divided between them. The arms of the city of Truro are “Gules the base wavy of six Argent and Azure, thereon an ancient ship of three masts under sail, on each topmast a banner of St George, on the waves in base two fishes of the second.” Truro prospered in the 18th-19th centuries. Industry flourished through improved mining methods and higher prices for tin, and the town attracted wealthy mine owners. Elegant Georgian and Victorian townhouses were built, such as those seen today in Lemon Street, named after the mining magnate and local MP Sir William Lemon. Truro became the centre for society in the county, even dubbed “the London of Cornwall”.

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