Lanner, Cornwall

infobox UK place
country=England
map_type=Cornwall
official_name=Lanner
cornish_name=
latitude=50.215
longitude=-5.201
civil_parish=Lanner
population=
shire_district=Kerrier
shire_county=Cornwall
region=South West England
constituency_westminster=Falmouth and Camborne
post_town=REDRUTH
postcode_district=TR16
postcode_area=TR
dial_code=01209
os_grid_reference=SW716400

Lanner is a village and civil parish in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Michael Loam erected his first man engine at Tresavean mine here in 1842. The mine was, in its heyday, one of the most productive copper mines in Cornwall [ [http://www.mindat.org/loc-25726.html Tresavean Mine: data sheet] .] [ [http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/history/tresavean.php Tresavean Mine: History] .] , with its own horse-drawn tramway [ [http://www.lanner.fsnet.co.uk/photo31.htm Tresavean Tramway] ]

Electronic musician Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) grew up in Lanner.

Lanner School provides primary education to the local area [ [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/menuitem.7c7b38b14d870c7bb1890a01637046a0/?event=getReport&urn=111837&inspectionNumber=310698&providerCategoryID=4096&fileName=\school\111\s5_111837_20080515.xml Ofsted inspection of Lanner primary School, April 2008] .] .

Lanner is well known for "Lanner and District Silver Band" which is one of the top brass bands in Cornwall. Fact|date=July 2008

The foundation stone of the Anglican chapel in Lanner was laid on 20 April 1839 ["The Times", Saturday, 11 May 1839; pg. 3; Issue 17039; col D: "On Wednesday, the 20th ult., the first stone of a new chapel at Lanner, in Gwennap, was laid by the Venerable Archdeacon Sheepshanks . . .".]

References

External links

* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cornwallpics/lanner/index.htm Photos of Lanner from Steve Beazley]
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Lanner/index.html Genuki website article on Lanner]
* [http://www.lannerinn.co.uk/index.html Lanner Inn]
* [http://www.lanner.org.uk/the-lanner-trail.htm Lanner Village website - Historic Trail page]
* [http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cornwall/Lanner.html Lanner War Memorial - Roll of Honour] .
* [http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=12424 Lanner Census profile 2001] .

Further reading

*Schwartz, Sharron and Parker, Roger "Lanner - A Cornish Mining Parish", Tiverton, Devon, Halsgrove. 1998, ISBN 1841140198.