St Agnes, Cornwall
St Agnes (Standard Written Form: Breanek) is a civil parish and a large village 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. An electoral ward exists stretching as far south as Blackwater. The population at the 2011 census was 7,565.
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 |
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| Shire county | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | St. Agnes |
| Postcode district | TR5 |
| Dialling code | 01872 55 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
The village 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.