Mount Hawke

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

Churches

Mount Hawke

Edward Benson.[8][9]

Mount Hawke also has an active

Methodist chapel.[10]

Recreation

Mount Hawke is the location of Cornwall's largest indoor skatepark.[11] There is also a cricket club which plays in the Cornwall League. The village has a park called the 'Millennium Green' with a jungle gym, a slide and swings. 'The Mount Hawke Boys' is a private club for young people. Mount Hawke also has its own Women's Institute building and a playschool held in the Methodist church.

Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes, were held in Mount Hawke in the 1900s.[12]

Railway

When the first section of the

Beeching axe.[14]

Notable residents

British singer-songwriter Alex Parks, winner of the television show Fame Academy in 2003, was brought up in Mount Hawke.[15]

References

  1. 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.
  5. ^ N.B. St Agnes was in the hundred of Pydar and Illogan was in the hundred of Penwith.
  6. ^ Mount Hawke. GENUKI. Retrieved April 2010.
  7. ^ Jago, W. (1925) "An Ecclesiastical Map of Cornwall and parts of Devon together forming the Diocese of Truro, 1877", in: Cornish Church Guide. Truro: Blackford
  8. ^ St John the Baptist, Mount Hawke. Archived 18 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine A Church Near You. Retrieved April 2009.
  9. ^ "Consecration of Mount Hawks Church". The Cornishman. No. 4. 8 August 1878.
  10. ^ Church History. Mount Hawke. GENUKI. Retrieved 23 September 2012. Also see: Mount Hawke Parish Church Archived 10 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ^ Mount Hawke.
  12. ^ Cornish Post and Mining News, 18 August 1934.
  13. ISBN 0-86093-470-5
  14. ISBN 0-906899-06-0
  15. ^ "Biography of Alex Parks." BBC. Retrieved April 2010.
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