Looking for a taxi transfer to a Cruise Ship Terminal from Camborne? Why not start your cruise in style, we offer cost effective travel from Camborne to the following ports:

• Camborne to the Port of Dover
• Camborne to the Port of Greenock/Glasgow
• Camborne to the Port of Harwich
• Camborne to the Port of Hull
• Camborne to the Port of Liverpool
• Camborne to the Port of Portsmouth
• Camborne to the Port of Southampton
• Camborne to the Port of Leith/Edinburgh
• Camborne to the Port of London Tilbury
• Camborne to the Port of Felixstowe
• Camborne to the Port of Newcastle

With many years’ experience in insuring our customers arrive at their destination on time, Cars Exec offer the very best in service with our excellent chauffeurs.

Our chauffeur driven taxi service provides comfort, style and luxury, all in one trip, to any of the major UK cruise ports from your home or airport. We will then be there on your return, ready to take care of you and your luggage, returning you home with the minimum of stress.

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Professional corporate travel

We provide a trusted, professional but discreet service to our business and corporate clients in Camborne, with impeccable chauffeur driven cars as well as luxury people carriers to Camborne based UK Companies, international business and discerning private clients, travelling to and from London.

Cars Exec offer cars to and from important meetings, a meet and greet service from major airports and train stations across mainland UK. as well as a daily commute service locally, or long distance to London and other UK cities

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Want to make your special event even more stylish? We will sweep you off to a day at the races, a concert, a birthday treat or even a proposal in our comfortable, luxurious cars. Just sit back and relax as you ride in style in executive chauffeur driven hire,

• Wimbledon.
• Birthday Treat / Surprise.
• Ascot.
• Silverstone.
• Wembley / O2 Arena.
• Anniversary celebrations.

Our VIP car service is the perfect prestige car hire service for you if you want to make the right impression, but at comparable taxi prices.

Camborne in Cornwall

Camborne was formerly one of the richest tin mining areas in the world and home to the Camborne School of Mines. Camborne is a comparatively recent town. Much of its growth was associated with the mining boom in the early 19th century. Before this, Camborne Churchtown was a small hamlet surrounded by moorland. It was only one small place among a cluster of other villages, most of which were larger.

By 1708 Camborne had rights to hold markets and three fairs a year which may be an indication of tin mining in the area; Camborne’s was inland and in an unfavourable location for trading. Mining is first recorded locally in the 1400s with early exploitation of the small streams cutting through the mineralised area and from shallow mines following lodes. Adit mining was first recorded in the 16th century. A sign of increasing industrial activity and increasing industrial population is the first chapel built in 1806 and the development of a local Methodist community.

The original road to Camborne was through Tuckingmill from where travellers had to follow a route through Treswithian to reach the hamlet. Camborne is best known as a centre for the former Cornish tin and copper mining industry, having its working heyday during the later 18th + early 19th century.

When the great turnpike road was built through Cornwall in 1839, Camborne came into its own. Baker’s Lane was extended and later this became Trelowarren Street, now Camborne’s main shopping street. By 1830, the insignificant hamlet had given way to a fast growing town, important due to the tin and copper mines surrounding it. Several new streets had been added within these few years and others were planned.

Camborne reached the peak of its prosperity in the mid 1880s. In 1841 the population numbered 10,061 and by 1871 this had risen to 14,929, the highest ever figure. As the population grew, the town became overcrowded. Drunken brawls riots and lawlessness became more frequent. Methodism did what it could to keep the peace and at one time there were five chapels in Camborne. On one occasion rioting became so furious that the police could not cope and the militia was sent for. These were nicknamed the Red Jackets and the incident is remembered still in the name of the pub in Trevenson Street.

Following the depression in mining after 1873, the years of mass emigration to mining fields overseas began. Even then, Camborne was saved from total ruin by the world-famous Dolcoath mine – the Queen of Mines. It was deeper and more productive than any other Cornish mine and supported hundreds of families for generations before closing in 1921.

The town’s most famous son, Richard Trevithick, invented a steam engine which travelled along the road. His statue stands outside the town library. The inventor is celebrated by the annual Trevithick Day.