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Coordinates: 50°16′53″N 5°12′31″W / 50.2815°N 5.2085°W
Mount Hawke parish church.
Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately seven miles (11 km) west-northwest of Truro, three miles (5 km) northeast of Redruth, and two miles (3 km) south of St Agnes.[1]
The village is in a former mining area in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes. It has a school, Mount Hawke Community Primary School,[2] a post office and various shops. Settlements bordering Mount Hawke include Banns and Menagissey.
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Churches
Mount Hawke ecclesiastical parish was created in 1847 from part of the parish of St Agnes and a smaller part of the parish of Illogan. Before this date, Mount Hawke was enumerated under St Agnes. The parish has been in the Hundred of Powder and the Truro Registration District since its creation.[3]
The parish church is on the south edge of the village and is dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is built of local stone with Bath stone dressings in the Perpendicular style and was consecrated in 1878.[4]
Mount Hawke also has an active Methodist chapel and there were formerly Wesleyan chapels at Mawla, Mount Hawke, and Skinner's Bottom.
Recreation
Mount Hawke is the location of Cornwall's largest indoor skatepark.[5] There is also a cricket club which plays in the Cornwall League. The village has a park called the 'Millennium Green' with a jungle gym, a slide and swings. 'The Mount Hawke Boys' is a private club for young people. Mount Hawke also has its own Women's Institute building and a playschool held in the Methodist church. Furthermore, there is a gypsy / traveler settlement found in one of the fields, just next to the skatepark.
Railway
When the first section of the Truro and Newquay Railway was opened in 1903, it passed east of the village. In 1905, extra stations were provided along the line as halts. Mount Hawke Halt railway station was the first such halt for eastbound trains 15⁄8 miles from the junction with the main line west of Chasewater.[6] The halt was nearly a mile from the village on the road to Chiverton Cross. The line closed in February 1963, the first Cornish railway to close under the Beeching axe.[7]
Notable residents
British singer-songwriter Alex Parks, winner of the television show Fame Academy in 2003, was brought up in Mount Hawke.[8]
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 9780319231487
- ^ [1] Mount Hawke School website; retrieved April 2010
- ^ [2] GENUKI website; Mount Hawke; retrieved April 2010
- ^ [3] A Church Near You website; Mount Hawke; retrieved April 2009
- ^ "Mount Hawke webpages". http://www.mounthawke.net.
- ^ John Vaughan, The Newquay Branch, Oxford Publishing, 1991, ISBN 0-86093-470-5
- ^ Lewis Reade, Branch Line Memories Volume One, Atlantic Publishers, 1983, ISBN 0906899060
- ^ [4] BBC biography of Alex Parks; retrieved April 2010
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