Penrose Water Gardens
Penrose Water Gardens was created in the 1970s and consists of 6 acres of marshland with 40 lily ponds and informal nature ponds fed by springs. The gardens host more than 100 varieties of aquatic plants including lilies that helped to win a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. Bird life includes kingfishers and moorhens as well as quite a few very happy ducks.
The gardens are free to visit and there is a café open 7 days a week. During periods of very heavy rain in winter the gardens are occasionally closed due to flooding (there is a facebook page where this is announced).
On walks
- Truro to Roseworthy (6.4 mile walk)
Get the iWalkCornwall app
Download the app and use it to explore the walks and to purchase a guided route.
The app will direct you to the start of the walk via satnav.
The app guides you around the walk using GPS, removing any worries about getting lost.
The walk route is described with detailed, regularly-updated, hand-written directions.
Each time there is a new direction to follow, the app will beep to remind you, and will warn you if you go off-route.
A map shows the route, where you are at all times and even which way you are facing.
Each walk is packed with information about the history and nature along the route, from over a decade of research than spans more than 3,000 topics.
Once a walk is downloaded, the app doesn't need a phone or wifi signal during the walk.
The app counts down distance to the next direction and estimates time remaining based on your personal walking speed.
We keep the directions continually updated for changes to the paths/landmarks - the price for a walk includes ongoing free updates.
