ST. AGNES PARISH

Introduction

St Agnes (Cornish: Breanek) is a civil parish and a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, UK. 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.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.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	3,636 hectares
Population	8,477 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	233 people/km²
Mean age	44.0
Ward	Mount Hawke and Portreath
District	Cornwall
Postcodes	TR16, TR4, TR5, TR6
ONS ID	E04011526