St Agnes
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 Churchtown, St Agnes | |
  St Agnes Location within Cornwall | |
| Population | 7,565 Parish 7,565 including Cross Coombe and Manor Parsley, Village 2,230 |
| OS grid reference | SW713507 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Shire county | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | St. Agnes |
| Postcode district | TR5 |
| Dialling code | 01872 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
St Agnes (Standard Written Form: Breanek)[1] is a civil parish and town on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) north of Redruth and ten miles (16 km) southwest of Newquay.[2] An electoral ward exists stretching as far south as Blackwater. The population at the 2011 census was 7,565.[3]
The town of St Agnes, a popular coastal tourist spot, lies on a main road between Redruth and Perranporth. It was a prehistoric and modern centre for mining of copper, tin and arsenic until the 1920s. Local industry has also included farming, fishing and quarrying, and more recently tourism.
The St Agnes district has a heritage of industrial archaeology and much of the landscape is of considerable geological interest. There are also stone-age remains in the parish. The manor of Tywarnhaile was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.
- ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
- ^ Ordnance Survey, Great Britain (February 2009). Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End. Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7. and Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin. ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5.
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 12 February 2015.