Brookdale Hotel
Truro, Cornwall

The Brookdale is a family-owned 30 bedroom hotel in the heart of the county town of Truro, where we seek to combine modern efficiency and facilities with genuine old-fashioned Cornish hospitality. We cater for a whole list of guests – from tourists to corporate. We're less than ten minutes walk - a stroll not a sprint - from the city centre, with its cobbled streets, back alleys, restaurants, shops and theatre, we're eight minutes (again a stroll) from the city's historic cathedral, and just five from the River Fal, where you can take a boat trip down to Falmouth. We're also central for government offices and Treliske and Duchy hospitals.

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Truro (pronounced Cornish: Truru) is the only city within the county of Cornwall, it is also Cornwall's administrative centre. It is the most southerly city in the United Kingdom, situated just under 232 miles (374 kilometres) west south-west of Charing Cross, London. It has a population of 20,920. The remains at Carvossa indicate that there has been settlement in the Truro since at least Iron Age times. There was also a Norman castle on one of the hills beside Truro, now the site of the recent award-winning Courts of Justice building (by Eldred Evans and David Shalev, who also designed the Tate St Ives building). Truro rose to prominence as a market town and port during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. However with the decline of the fishing and tin mining industries, Truro's role has shifted to being the cultural and commercial capital of Cornwall. Truro's present buildings are mostly Georgian era or later, a result of its role as a stannary town during the height of the mining industry in West Cornwall.