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Dist:0.2km<br/>This fine granite overbridge, typical of the Helston branch line, carries a minor road over the trackbed at Truthall Halt, which is the proposed southern terminus (at present) of the ongoing restoration attempt. The platform was just to the left of this picture, where the bank rises. http://www.helstonrailway.co.uk
©Malcolm Kewn
Dist:0.3km<br/>
©SMJ
Dist:0.4km<br/>This leat served at least two mills at Lower Town and probably Tucking Mill as well
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking downstream from the bridge at Lowertown
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.5km<br/>Restored 18’ diameter overshot waterwheel in action
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.5km<br/>Now a farm outbuilding but previously a watermill, fed by a long leat from the river Cober. Water from its tail race also powered Anvower or Lower Mill. The hipped (or often half-hipped) roof is typical of surviving earlier west country mills.
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.6km<br/>
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.7km<br/>The nearest finger points to Truthall Halt, a station on the old Helston branch line.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.8km<br/>This fine granite viaduct carried the former Helston branch line over the River Cober until the line closed in October 1964. An attempt to reopen at least part of the line is currently underway - see http://www.helstonrailway.co.uk for details.
©Malcolm Kewn
Dist:0.8km<br/>The overgrown trackbed atop the Cober Valley viaduct looking towards Helston.
©Malcolm Kewn
Dist:0.8km<br/>This bridge carries the trackbed of the Helston branch line over a bridleway; a few yards south-east is the impressive granite viaduct over the Cober Valley.
©Malcolm Kewn
Dist:0.8km<br/>The road leads up to the hamlet of Tregoose where there are a few houses.
©Elizabeth Scott
Dist:0.9km<br/>Looking across the valley of the River Cober towards modern housing on the western side of Helston.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.9km<br/>This granite viaduct once carried the long-disused Helston branch line across the Cober valley.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.9km<br/>This primary school is not situated in a village, there are almost no villages in this area but there are many farmsteads and isolated houses from which the school draws its children.
©Tony Atkin

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