St Agnes is a civil parish and also a large town on the north coastline of Cornwall, England, UK. The village is about five miles (8 kilometres) north of Redruth as well as ten miles (16 kilometres) southwest of Newquay. A selecting ward exists extending as much south as Blackwater. The population at the 2011 census was 7,565. The town of St Agnes, a preferred coastal tourist area, lies on a main road in between Redruth and Perranporth. It was a prehistoric as well as modern-day centre for mining of copper, tin and also arsenic till the 1920s. Regional industry has actually likewise included farming as well as angling, as well as a lot more lately tourism. The St Agnes district has a heritage of commercial archaeology and much of the landscape is of considerable geological interest. There are likewise stone-age remains in the church. The estate of Tywarnhaile was among the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.