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Lanner ( kw, Lannergh) is a village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the A393 about south-east of
Redruth Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and 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 includes Carn Brea, Illogan ...
.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' Lanner is in the
St Day St Day ( kw, Sen Day) is a 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 had a population at the 2011 census of 4,473 ...
, Carharrack and Lanner ward which had a collective population of 5,438 in 2001. The population of Lanner civil parish was 2,493 in the 2001 census, increasing to 2,690 at the 2011 census.GENUKI website
Lanner; retrieved 10 February 2015
The village has a
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, Lanner School.


History

The name "Lanner" comes from the Cornish "''Lannergh''", which means "a clearing". The village is a former
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and copper
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 ...
parish which grew rapidly in the 19th century, but has been recorded as far back as 1542, and with settlement traces back to the
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. Michael Loam erected his first
man engine A man engine is a mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms installed in mines to assist the miners' journeys to and from the working levels. It was invented in Germany in the 19th century and was a prominent feature of tin an ...
at Tresavean mine, Lanner, in 1842. The mine was, in its heyday, one of the most productive copper mines in Cornwall.


Church history

The parish church, Christ Church, is in the
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and was consecrated on St Swithin's day, 1845. It is a small stuccoed building and was restored in 1883. The registers date from 1839. The foundation stone of the Anglican chapel (which became the parish church in 1844) in Lanner was laid on 20 April 1839. ''The Times'' reported that '' "On Wednesday, the 20th ult., the first stone of a new chapel at Lanner, in Gwennap, was laid by the Venerable Archdeacon Sheepshanks".'' Until constituted a parish in 1844 Lanner (or Lannarth) was part of the parish of
Gwennap Gwennap ( kw, Lannwenep (village), Pluw Wenep (parish)) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is about five miles (8 km) southeast of Redruth. Hamlets of Burncoose, Comford, Coombe, Crofthandy, Cusgarne, Fernsplatt, ...
. Lanner has a large Wesleyan Methodist chapel. The former Bible Christian chapel is now used as the Village Hall and the former Primitive Methodist chapel is now used as the silver band's rehearsal room.


Geography

Lanner lies in a valley with Carn Marth hill rising north of the village. Lanner Hill is west of the village and Tresavean Hill is to the south. The village is centred on a square and straddles the A393
Redruth Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and 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 includes Carn Brea, Illogan ...
to Falmouth road. The village slopes down the valley; the west end is known as Lanner Hill and the east end as Lanner Moor.


Music

The village is well known for the " Lanner and District Silver Band" which is among the more prominent of the brass bands in Cornwall. The American countertenor Richard Jose was born in Lanner in 1862 and emigrated to the United States in 1876. Electronic musician Richard D. James (
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) grew up in Lanner.


Sport

Lanner RFU are a
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
club, founded in 2014. They won promotion in their first season in league rugby and in
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came first in Cornwall 1 to win promotion to Tribute Cornwall/Devon. They then moved to Mt Ambrose and folded shortly after. Unfortunately, the majority of the Villages Sports teams have now disbanded or moved elsewhere. The local village football team
Lanner AFC
which was reformed in 1981 is currently playing in the Trelawny League in West Cornwall and playing their home games on the former Tresavean mine site.


References


Further reading

* Schwartz, Sharron and Parker, Roger ''Lanner - A Cornish Mining Parish'', Tiverton, Devon, Halsgrove. 1998, .


External links


Lanner Parish Council

Lanner Village website - Historic Trail page
{{authority control Lanner Civil parishes in Cornwall