Chacewater ( kw, Dowr an Chas) is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
, England, UK. It is situated approximately east of
Redruth
Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also inc ...
. The hamlets of
Carnhot
Carnhot is a hamlet in the civil parish of Chacewater in Cornwall, England.Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190''. 1961 Carnot lies north-west of Chacewater on the road to Blackwater, Cornwall. Carnot ...
,
Cox Hill,
Creegbrawse
Creegbrawse is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between the villages of Chacewater (where the 2011 census population was included ) and Todpool approximately three miles (5 km) east of Redruth.Ordnance Su ...
,
Hale Mills
Hale Mills is a hamlet in the parish of Chacewater, Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish pe ...
,
Jolly's Bottom
Jolly's Bottom is in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately a half mile (1 km) north of Chacewater and straddles the main line railway.
The settlement is in Chacewater civil parish
In England, a civil pa ...
,
Salem,
Saveock
Saveock is a hamlet in west Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered ...
,
Scorrier
Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Day, about northeast of the centre of Redruth and southeast of the coast at Porthtowan, on the A30 road at the junction of the A3047 road that leads we ...
,
Todpool
Todpool is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located between Chacewater and St Day villages and is three miles (5 km) east of Redruth.Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190'' ...
,
Twelveheads
Twelveheads ( kw, Dewdhek Stamp) is a hamlet east of St Day in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190''. 1961 It lies in the parish of Chacewater, between Truro and ...
and
Wheal Busy
Wheal may refer to:
* Wheals, a type of skin lesion
* Brad Wheal (born 1996), British cricketer
* Donald James Wheal (1931–2008), British British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer
* David John Wheal, Australian businessman
* "Th ...
are in the parish. The electoral ward is called Chacewater & Kenwyn. At the 2011 census a population of 3,870 was quoted.
Village
Chacewater sits in a valley between hills separating it from the villages of
Threemilestone,
Scorrier
Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Day, about northeast of the centre of Redruth and southeast of the coast at Porthtowan, on the A30 road at the junction of the A3047 road that leads we ...
and
St Day
St Day ( kw, Sen Day) is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Chacewater and the town of Redruth. The electoral ward St Day and Lanner, Cornwall, Lanner ...
. Nearby is
Wheal Busy
Wheal may refer to:
* Wheals, a type of skin lesion
* Brad Wheal (born 1996), British cricketer
* Donald James Wheal (1931–2008), British British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer
* David John Wheal, Australian businessman
* "Th ...
, the
Poldice
Poldice mine is a former metalliferous mine located in Poldice Valley in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated near the hamlet of Todpool, between the villages of Twelveheads and St Day, three miles (5 km) east of R ...
Valley and the Coast to Coast cycle route. The village has a pub and a club, the Chacewater Literary Institute. There are also a health centre, primary school, village hall and small selection of shops.
A free monthly magazine ''What's on in Chacewater'' reached its 200th issue in July 2007. It lists events and activities, such as the Football Club, a Cricket Club, a Bowling Club, the Chacewater Old Cornwall Society, the Chacewater Players, the Carnival (held in August), the Blind Club and a Women's Institute. The Kernow Microscopical Society meets in Chacewater.
Churches
The Anglican church is dedicated to St Paul; it was built in 1828 and rebuilt (apart from the tower) in 1892 by
Edmund H. Sedding. The stonework is partly of granite and partly of
Polyphant stone
Elvan is a name used in Cornwall and Devon for the native varieties of quartz-porphyry. They are dispersed irregularly in the Devonian series of rocks and some of them make very fine building stones (e.g. Pentewan stone, Polyphant stone and Cat ...
: the interior is lofty and the walls unplastered.
On 29 April 1880 a new organ was installed, for £120, in the Methodist Chapel by Mr Hele of
Hele & Co
Hele & Co (also known as Hele & Sons) were the main organ builders in the south west of England from 1865 to 2007.''The Freeman-Edmonds Directory of British Organ Builders''; by Andrew Freeman & Bernard Edmonds. 2002
History
The company was fo ...
,
Plymouth
Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth ...
.
Economy and transport
Chacewater railway station
There are seventeen disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England. The remains of nine of these can be seen from passing trains. While a number of these were closed following the s ...
was opened by the
West Cornwall Railway
The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between Pen ...
on 25 August 1852 but long since closed. The station closed to passengers on 5 October 1964 but continued to be served by goods traffic for many years, latterly for Blue Circle Cement. The
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...
bound platforms can still be seen, complete with a much altered station building.
Great Western Railway
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and
CrossCountry
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The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) ...
services run through the station on the
Cornish Main Line
The Cornish Main Line ( kw, Penn-hyns-horn Kernow) is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth, crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the famous Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
It directly ...
. There are two Nursery Gardens in Chacewater; Sunny Corner Nurseries and Roseland House Nursery, which holds a
National Collection
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* National Railway Museum, York
* National Railwa ...
of ''
Clematis viticella
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'' cultivars and of ''
Lapageria rosea'', the Chilean Bellflower.
Twelveheads Press
Twelveheads Press is an independent publishing company based in Chacewater near Truro, Cornwall, UK. Best known for their ''Cornish Heritage'' series but also well known by scholars and enthusiasts for their transport and mining books: the firm ...
, an independent publishing company, is based in Chacewater. It is best known for the ''Cornish Heritage'' series but also publishes transport and mining books.
Notable people
Notable people born in Chacewater include
Jonathan Hornblower
Jonathan Hornblower (5 July 1753 – 23 February 1815) was an English pioneer of steam power.
Personal life
The son of Jonathan Hornblower the Elder and the brother of Jabez Carter Hornblower, two fellow pioneers, the young Hornblower was ...
the steam pioneer,
Matthew Paul Moyle
Matthew Paul Moyle (4 October 1788 – 7 August 1880) was an English meteorologist and writer on mining, second son of John Moyle, by Julia, daughter of Jonathan Hornblower, was born at Chacewater, Cornwall, 4 October 1788, and educated at Guy ...
the meteorologist and geologist, and
Andrew Ketcham Barnett
Andrew Ketcham Barnett (1852–1914) was a mineral collector and dealer in Penzance, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. He was Principal of the Penzance School of Mines (now part of the Camborne School of Mines), lectured on mining, and helped to ...
, Mayor of
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...
and president of the
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to promote the study of the geology of Cornwall, and is the second oldest geological society in the world ...
.
(See also
:People from Chacewater.)
Gallery
File:Entrance and tower of St Paul's church, Chacewater - geograph.org.uk - 919772.jpg, St Paul's Church
Image:DSCN0566ChacewaterMethodist.JPG, Chacewater Methodist Church
Image:Chacewater Literary Institute (DSCN0562).jpg, Chacewater Literary Institute
Image:Chacewater railway station in 2008.jpg, Chacewater railway station
There are seventeen disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England. The remains of nine of these can be seen from passing trains. While a number of these were closed following the s ...
on the Cornish Main Line
The Cornish Main Line ( kw, Penn-hyns-horn Kernow) is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth, crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the famous Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
It directly ...
, not reopened yet.
Image:DSCN0568ChacewaterRoseland.JPG, Roseland Nursery Garden
Image:Roseland House (DSCN0560).jpg, Roseland House
Image:"Rambling Miner" public house in Chacewater (DSCN0563).jpg, "The Rambling Miner"
Image:DSCN0567Chacewater-KingsHead.JPG, "The King's Head"
Image:DSCN0565ChacewaterBritannia.JPG, "The Britannia"
Image:Chacewater Roofscape (DSCN0561).jpg, Chacewater Village from Chacewater Hill
See also
*
Killifreth Mine – a former mine nearby
*
Wheal Busy
Wheal may refer to:
* Wheals, a type of skin lesion
* Brad Wheal (born 1996), British cricketer
* Donald James Wheal (1931–2008), British British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer
* David John Wheal, Australian businessman
* "Th ...
– a nearby disused metalliferous mine formerly called Chacewater mine
*
Wheal Jane
Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines.
History
Wheal Jane was probably seriously worked for tin from the mid-18th century. ...
– a nearby disused tin mine
References
External links
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Civil parishes in Cornwall