Chacewater
| Chacewater Cornish: Dowr an Chas | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Chacewater Village from Chacewater Hill | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW751444 |
| Location: | 50°15’25"N, 5°9’25"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,580 (2011, parish) |
| Post town: | Truro |
| Postcode: | TR4 |
| Dialling code: | 01872 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Truro and Falmouth |
| Website: | www.chacewater.net/ |
Chacewater is a village in Cornwall, three miles east of Redruth, in the west of the county. The hamlets of Carnhot, Cox Hill, Creegbrawse, Hale Mills, Jolly's Bottom, Salem, Saveock, Scorrier, Todpool, Twelveheads and Wheal Busy are in the Chacewater parish.[1]
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.
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Society
The village has three pubs and a club, the Chacewater Literary Institute; the latter was was given to the village in 1893 by John Passmore Edwards. There are also a health centre, a primary school, a village hall and small selection of shops.
A village carnival is held each year in August.
Local clubs and activities include:
- Chacewater Old Cornwall Society,[2]
- The Chacewater Players
- The Blind Club
- Chacewater Women's Institute
- The Kernow Microscopical Society, which meets in Chacewater.
A free monthly magazine What's on in Chacewater reached its 200th issue in July 2007. It lists events and activities
Sport
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
- Church of England: St Paul's Church[6][7]
St Paul's 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.[8]
The Methodist Chapel[9] is closed, pending repairs.
Gallery
Chacewater Methodist Church
Chacewater Literary Institute
Roseland Nursery Garden
Roseland House
"The Rambling Miner"
"The King's Head"
"The Britannia"
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Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Chacewater) |
References
- ↑ Cornwall; Explore Britain
- ↑ Chacewater Old Cornwall Society
- ↑ Chacewater Bowling Club
- ↑ Chacewater Cricket Club
- ↑ Chacewater F.C.
- ↑ "St Paul's Church-History". http://www.chacewater.net/churches/church.htm.
- ↑ "St Paul's Church - current information". http://www.acny.org.uk/venue.php?V=2419.
- ↑ Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South. London: Collins; p. 147
- ↑ "Methodist Chapel". http://www.chacewater.net/churches/chapel.htm.
