St Agnes
St Agnes is a civil parish and a large village on the north shore of Cornwall, England, UK. The village is about five miles (8 kilometres) north of Redruth as well as 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Newquay. A selecting ward exists stretching as much south as Blackwater. The population at the 2011 census was 7,565. The village of St Agnes, a preferred seaside tourist spot, lies on a highway between Redruth and Perranporth. It was a prehistoric as well as modern centre for mining of copper, tin as well as arsenic until the 1920s. Local industry has also included farming and fishing, as well as much more recently tourism. The St Agnes area has a heritage of industrial archaeology and also much of the landscape is of considerable geological passion. There are likewise stone-age remains in the church. The estate of Tywarnhaile was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.