Chacewater

Not to be confused with Chasewater.
Chacewater
Cornish: Dowr an Chas
Chacewater
 Chacewater shown within Cornwall
Population 1,580 (Civil Parish, 2011)
OS grid referenceSW751444
Civil parishChacewater
Unitary authorityCornwall
Ceremonial countyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town TRURO
Postcode district TR4
Dialling code 01872
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentTruro and Falmouth
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall

Coordinates: 50°15′25″N 5°09′25″W / 50.257°N 5.157°W / 50.257; -5.157

Chacewater (Cornish: Dowr an Chas) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) east of Redruth.[1] The hamlets of Carnhot, Cox Hill, Creegbrawse, Hale Mills, Jolly's Bottom, Salem, Saveock, Scorrier, Todpool, Twelveheads and Wheal Busy are in the parish.[2] The electoral ward is called Chacewater & Kenwyn. At the 2011 census a population of 3,870 was quoted.[3]

Village

Chacewater sits in a valley between hills separating it from Threemilestone, Scorrier and St Day close to Wheal Busy and the Poldice Valley and the Coast to Coast cycle route.

The village has three pubs and a club, the Chacewater Literary Institute.[4] There are also a health centre, a primary school, a village hall and small selection of shops.

A free monthly magazine What's on in Chacewater reached its 200th issue in July 2007. It lists events and activities, such as the Football Club,[5] a Cricket Club,[6] a Bowling Club,[7] the Chacewater Old Cornwall Society,[8] the Chacewater Players, the Carnival (held in August), the Blind Club and a Women's Institute. The Kernow Microscopical Society meets in Chacewater.

Economy and transport

Chacewater railway station was opened by the West Cornwall Railway on 25 August 1852 but has long since closed.

There are two Nursery Gardens in Chacewater; Sunny Corner Nurseries and Roseland House Nursery, which holds a National Collection of Clematis viticella cultivars and of Lapageria rosea, the Chilean Bellflower.

Twelveheads Press, an independent publishing company, is based in Chacewater. It is best known for the Cornish Heritage series but also publishes transport and mining books.

Churches

The Anglican church[9][10] is dedicated to St Paul; it was built in 1828 and rebuilt (apart from the tower) in 1892 by Edmund H. Sedding. The stonework is partly of granite and partly of Polyphant stone: the interior is lofty and the walls unplastered.[11] The Methodist Chapel[12] is closed, pending repairs.

Notable people

Notable people born in Chacewater include Jonathan Hornblower the steam pioneer, Matthew Paul Moyle the meteorologist and geologist, and Andrew Ketcham Barnett Mayor of Penzance and president of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. (See also Category:People from Chacewater.)

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 978-0-319-23149-4
  2. ↑ Cornwall; Explore Britain
  3. ↑ "Ward population 2011 census". Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Chacewater Literary Institute was given to the village in 1893 by John Passmore Edwards.
  5. ↑ Chacewater F.C.
  6. ↑ Chacewater Cricket Club
  7. ↑ Chacewater Bowling Club
  8. ↑ Chacewater Old Cornwall Society
  9. ↑ "St Paul's Church-History".
  10. ↑ "St Paul's Church - current information".
  11. ↑ Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South. London: Collins; p. 147
  12. ↑ "Methodist Chapel".

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