Place:St. Agnes (near Redruth), Cornwall, England

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source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: There is another place named St. Agnes on the Isles of Scilly. For the benefit of people from afar, the village described here has been named St. Agnes (near Redruth) although, in common parlance, it is simply called St Agnes.

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St. Agnes (Cornish: Breanek) is a civil parish and a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, England. The village is about five miles (8 km) north of Redruth and ten miles (16 km) southwest of Newquay.

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 and fishing, 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.

St Agnes was part of the Truro Rural District from 1894 until 1974. Until 1846 it was a chapelry in the ecclesiastical parish of Perranzabuloe.

This is an outline from the FamilySearch Wiki. The encyclopaedia from which it is taken is not given.

"St. Agnes, a market-town and parish, in the union of Truro, W. division of the hundred of Pyder, and of Cornwall, 8½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Truro, and 263 (W.) from London. There are places of worship for Bryanites, Independents, and Wesleyans.

"St Agnes is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Cornwall, created in 1846 from chapelry in Perranzabuloe, Cornwall Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Porthtowan, Mingoose, Skinners Bottom, Trevellas, Trevellas Downs, Blackwater, Croscombe, Cross Combe, Goodnown, Goonbell, and Goonown.

"The church of St Agnes was a chapel-of-ease only (St Agnes was made into a parish in 1846). The parish church is 15th century in date but has been much restored in recent times.

"Mount Hawke, Cornwall was created from part of the parish in 1847.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article St Agnes, Cornwall. There is a long description of the local mines and the mining industry.

Research Tips

One of the many maps available on A Vision of Britain through Time is one from the Ordnance Survey Series of 1900 illustrating the parish boundaries of Cornwall at the turn of the 20th century. This map blows up to show all the parishes and many of the small villages and hamlets.

The following websites have pages explaining their provisions in WeRelate's Repository Section. Some provide free online databases.

• Repository:Cornwall Record Office
• Repository:Cornish Studies Library
• Repository:Cornwall Family History Society
• Repository:Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
• Repository:Cornwall Online Census Project
• Repository:West Briton Transcripts Database (Transcriptions from a Cornish newspaper of 1836-1887)

• GENUKI makes a great many suggestions as to other websites with worthwhile information about Cornwall as well as providing 19th century descriptions of each of the ecclesiastical parishes.
• FamilySearch Wiki provides a similar information service to GENUKI which may be more up-to-date.
• A Vision of Britain through Time has

1. organization charts of the hierarchies of parishes within hundreds, registration districts and rural and urban districts of the 20th century
2. excerpts from a gazetteer of circa 1870 outlining individual towns and parishes
3. reviews of population through the time period 1800-1960

• More local sources can often be found by referring to "What Links Here" in the column on the left.

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