St Agnes is a civil parish and also a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, UK. The town has to do with 5 miles (8 kilometres) north of Redruth and ten miles (16 km) 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 popular seaside traveler area, rests on a main road in between Redruth and also Perranporth. It was a prehistoric and also contemporary centre for mining of copper, tin and arsenic until the 1920s. Regional sector has likewise consisted of farming as well as angling, and also a lot more lately tourist. The St Agnes area has a heritage of commercial archaeology as well as much of the landscape is of considerable geological interest. There are additionally stone-age remains in the church. The estate of Tywarnhaile was just one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.