Balwest ( kw, Bal West, meaning ''Western mine'') is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

in the

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Germoe Germoe ( kw, Germogh) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Germoe village, the parish's main settlement and church town, is about five miles (8 km) west of Helston and seven miles (11.3 km) east of Penz ...

in west

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, England, in the United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite (one of five granite

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s in Cornwall) which was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore (see also Geology of Cornwall). A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners.
GENUKI website: Germoe. Retrieved May 2010 The building is Grade II listed.

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