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Redruth

Redruth is a town in . The town also has a long history of tin mining and is the home of Rodda's, a dairy that is the largest producer of Cornish clotted cream.
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  • Type: Town with 42,700 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Redruth, Cornwall”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Redruth railway station and Kresen Kernow.

Railway station
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Redruth station serves the town of Redruth, , United Kingdom; it is situated on the Cornish Main Line between and . The station is 309 miles 68 chains down the line from the zero point at , measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay.

Government office
Photo: KresenKernow, CC BY-SA 4.0.
in Redruth, is Cornwall's archive centre, home to the world's biggest collection of archive and library material related to .

Hospital
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The is a National Health Service hospital in , England. It is managed by Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camborne and St Day.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in , England. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 23,831 and the population of the built up area was 20,450. is situated 3½ miles southwest of Redruth.

Village
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is a civil parish and village in , England, United Kingdom. It is positioned between the village of and the town of Redruth. The electoral ward and had a population of 4,473 according to the 2011 census.

Village
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is a village in civil parish in west , England. It is bypassed by the A30, on the A3047 between and Redruth, between and .

Redruth

Latitude
50.234° or 50° 14′ 2″ north
Longitude
-5.2276° or 5° 13′ 40″ west
Population
42,700
Elevation
443 feet (135 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB RRU
Open location code
9C2P6QMC+HW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 443527322
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2639524
Wiki­data ID
Q1010210
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Redruth” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Redruth”
  • Basque: “Redruth”
  • Belarusian: “Рэдрут”
  • Bengali: “রিডোথ”
  • Breton: “Redruth”
  • Breton: “Resrudh”
  • Breton: “Rysrudh”
  • Bulgarian: “Редрът”
  • Catalan: “Redruth”
  • Cebuano: “Redruth”
  • Chinese: “Redruth”
  • Chinese: “雷德魯斯”
  • Chinese: “雷德鲁斯”
  • Cornish: “Ewny Redreth”
  • Cornish: “Resrudh”
  • Cornish: “Ryd Ruth”
  • Cornish: “Rysrudh”
  • Czech: “Redruth”
  • Danish: “Redruth”
  • Dutch: “Redruth”
  • French: “Redruth”
  • Galician: “Redruth”
  • German: “Redruth”
  • Greek: “Ρέντρουθ”
  • Gujarati: “રેડરૂઠ”
  • Hebrew: “רדרות‘”
  • Irish: “Redruth”
  • Italian: “Redruth”
  • Japanese: “ラドルード”
  • Japanese: “レッドラス”
  • Japanese: “レッドルース”
  • Kannada: “ರೆಡ್ರುತ್”
  • Korean: “레드루스”
  • Ladin: “Redruth”
  • Latin: “Redruth”
  • Lithuanian: “Redrutas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Redruth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Redruth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rysrudh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Redruth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rysrudh”
  • Norwegian: “Redruth”
  • Persian: “ردروث”
  • Polish: “Redruth”
  • Portuguese: “Redruth”
  • Romanian: “Redruth”
  • Russian: “Редрат”
  • Russian: “Редрут”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ردروث”
  • Spanish: “Redruth”
  • Swedish: “Redruth”
  • Tamil: “ரெட்ரூத்”
  • Telugu: “రెడ్రుత్”
  • Turkish: “Redruth”
  • Urdu: “ریدرود”
  • Volapük: “Redruth”
  • Volapük: “Rysrudh”
  • Welsh: “Redruth”
  • Welsh: “Resrudh”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Redruth”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.