Luxulyan

Luxulyan is a village in mid-Cornwall, about 4 miles north of St Austell in a wooded valley cut by the River Luxulyan. The village is best known for the Treffry Viaduct, a ten-arch granite structure built in 1842 by Joseph Thomas Treffry to carry a horse-drawn tramway and water channel across the valley. The viaduct stands 98 feet high and 660 feet long; it is listed Grade I and is accessible on foot via a waymarked trail through Luxulyan Valley, which is itself designated a World Heritage Site as part of the Cornish Mining landscape.

The valley contains the remains of several 19th-century industrial features including water channels (leats), wheel pits, and tramway inclines, all connected to the china clay and mining industries that shaped this part of Cornwall. The woodland is managed by Cornwall Council and is rich in mosses, lichens, and ferns on the valley floor. The village itself has a church and a pub; the nearest supermarkets are in St Austell.

Fowey is about 7 miles south through Lostwithiel, and the Eden Project is about 3 miles east - both accessible by car. Holiday properties in and around Luxulyan are typically granite farm buildings with views across the valley or surrounding farmland. The area sits between the china clay tips visible to the north-west and the coastal resorts of the south Cornish coast.