HC Deb 24 July 1989 vol 157 cc482-3W
Mr. Mudd

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the top 20 tourist attractions in Cornwall in numbers visiting or attending; and if he will indicate the numbers, in each instance, for the previous comparable year.

Mr. Lee

The English Tourist Board's annual survey of visits to attractions gives the following figures for Cornwall in 1987 and 1988:

Number of visits
1987 1988
Truro Cathedral 250,000 250,000
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park 200,000
St. Agnes Leisure Park 200,000 200,000
World in Miniature, Goonhavern 195,000 200,000
Dobwall's Theme Park 135,000 190,000
Newquay Zoo 143,482 186,000
St. Michael's Mount 172,975 175,815
Tintagel Castle 135,935 134,386
Tescan Ltd (Tannery) Redruth 112,000
Cotehele House 79,937 81,456
Trelissick Garden, Nr Truro 69,522 75,244
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth 63,412 70,739
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station 56,684 63,000
Dairyland, Newquay 60,000 56,940
Tintagel Old Post Office 49,673 55,048
Trerice 53,241 52,250
Callestock Cider Farm, Penhallow 21,544 50,000
Monkey Sanctuary, Looe 53,700 48,000
Padstow Tropical Bird Garden 30,000 43,000
Charlestown Visitor Centre 38,700 40,250

Action Plans completed by ET Training Agents: September 1988 to March 1989
Agreed Action Plans
Area Office September 1988 October 1988 November 1988 December 1988 January 1989 February 1989 March 1989
South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire 242 798 0 922 514 450 418
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 219 294 763 411 429 520 500
Essex 227 550 525 1,051 632 748 989
Hampshire and Isle of Wight 411 487 679 409 717 670 772
Kent 32 610 1,159 488 714 652 596
Surrey 102 223 174 615 190 0 196
Sussex 0 682 900 470 555 652 695
London Region
Inner London North 505 1,196 1,545 1,606 1,651 1,799 2,090
Inner London South 510 655 616 539 645 718 736
London East 793 735 805 670 972 1,117 1,092
London North 732 857 935 846 858 970 996
London South 280 320 479 340 423 542 543
London West 591 867 811 676 900 912 952
South West Region
Avon 238 361 411 327 453 506 489
Devon and Cornwall 665 692 1,244 795 1,294 615 1,192
Dorset and Somerset 418 478 386 332 342 516 471
Gloucester and Wiltshire 357 546 560 433 390 479 536
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull 935 1,026 1,201 756 1,553 1,685 1,382
Coventry and Warwickshire 378 617 576 322 638 812 748
Dudley and Sandwell 818 769 899 1,021 978 1,059 1,416
Staffordshire 541 906 434 1,145 1,128 929 1,192
The Marches, Hereford/Worcester 0 710 677 954 406 613 1,330
Wolverhampton and Walsall 0 1,055 1,913 308 706 821 754

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