Balwest

Balwest
Balwest Methodist chapel, a Grade II listed building
Balwest Balwest shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SW594298
Shire county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	TR13
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coordinates: 50°07′15″N 5°21′56″W / 50.12082°N 5.36551°W / 50.12082; -5.36551

Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe^[1] in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom .^[2]

The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former mining area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite (one of five granite batholiths in Cornwall) which was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore (see also Geology of Cornwall).

A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners.^[3] The building is Grade II listed.

References

↑ Cornwall Council online mapping. Retrieved May 2010
↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
↑ GENUKI website: Germoe. Retrieved May 2010

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