St Agnes
St Agnes is a civil parish as well as a large town on the north shore of Cornwall, England, UK. The town is about five miles (8 kilometres) north of Redruth and also 10 miles (16 kilometres) southwest of Newquay. A selecting ward exists extending as far southern as Blackwater. The population at the 2011 census was 7,565. The town of St Agnes, a preferred seaside visitor place, rests on a main road between Redruth and Perranporth. It was an ancient and modern-day centre for mining of copper, tin and arsenic up until the 1920s. Local industry has actually likewise included farming and fishing, and more recently tourism. The St Agnes area has a heritage of industrial archaeology and also much of the landscape is of substantial geological interest. There are also stone-age remains in the church. The manor of Tywarnhaile was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.