Sticker ( kw, Stekyer) is a former mining village in south

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, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the parish of St Mewan. The nearest town is

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three miles (4.5 km) to the north-east.

Great Hewas Mine

In 1785, Sticker was described as "a new place"J. Wesley''Journal'', Vol. 4, p. 305 (1867) and it was a settlement for workers in the Great Hewas Mine on its western outskirts. Great Hewas was worked in the 18th century, a 45-inch Boulton & Watt pumping engine was installed in the 1790s. By the 19th century, the mine employed over 250 people, producing not only

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, but

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, and some

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. Two smaller mines to the west, Ventonwyn and Hewas Water, worked alongside Great Hewas. The last of these mines ceased production in 1926, though the chimney of Ventonwyn engine house is still a local landmark.

Village history

John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...

, founder of

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, preached at Sticker in August 1785, when the Methodist theologian

Adam Clarke Adam Clarke (176226 August 1832) was a British Methodist theologian who served three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference (1806–07, 1814–15 and 1822–23). A biblical scholar, he published an influential Bible commentary ...

was one of the circuit ministers for the village. A Methodist chapel in Lower Sticker was built by miners in their spare time in 1836. A second chapel was built in Sticker in 1876.
An

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church was designed by architect

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in 1848/49, but was never built. The current St Mark's Mission Church was designed by

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and opened in 1877. St Mark's is a

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for the parish church at St Mewan. One of the oldest establishments in the village is the Hewas Inn, formerly the Great Hewas Inn, which was rebuilt in 1825 and is now a

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The village today

Since the 1960s, large numbers of bungalows and housing estates have been built in and around the village, which is within commuting distance of St Austell and

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. As a result, Sticker now has around 450 homes, a population of about 1150 and an electorate of around 850. It has a shop and post office and a regular bus service to St Austell, Truro and the surrounding villages. The village hall is maintained and run by Sticker Village Association. St Mark's church and the Methodist chapel have community halls.

David Tremlett David Tremlett (born 13 February 1945 in St Austell, Cornwall) is an English/Swiss sculptor, installation artist and photographer. He lives and works in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England. He is married to Laure Genillard who runs an art space in Lo ...

, the conceptual artist, grew up in Sticker.

Sport

The village also has its own football club,

Sticker A.F.C. Sticker Association Football Club is a football club based in Sticker, Cornwall. They are currently members of the . History The first time a club represented the village of Sticker was in 1911, who played until 1914 when World War I started ...

who currently play in the

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at Burngullow Lane.Cornwall FA
Sticker Switch on New Lights - Cornwall FA
accessdate: February 2, 2020

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