Mount Hawke

50°16′53″N 5°12′31″W / 50.2815°N 5.2085°W / 50.2815; -5.2085

Mount Hawke parish church.

Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately eight miles (13 km) west-northwest of Truro, five miles (8.0 km) north-northeast of Redruth, and two and a half miles (4.0 km) south of St Agnes.[1]

The village is in a former mining area in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes. It has a school, Mount Hawke Community Primary School,[2] a post office and various shops. The settlements bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and Menagissey (south); Porthtowan is further away westward.[3]

The village is represented on Cornwall Council by the electoral division of Mount Hawke and Portreath. The population as of the 2011 census was 4,401.[4]

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  2. ^ Main. Mount Hawke School. Retrieved April 2010.
  3. ^ Philip's Street Atlas; Cornwall. London: Philip's, 2003; p. 68
  4. ^ "Mount Hawke and Portreath electoral ward 2011 census". Retrieved 10 February 2010.