Mount Hawke
| Mount Hawke | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Mount Hawke parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW716473 |
| Location: | 50°16’56"N, 5°12’24"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | TR4 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, approximately eight miles west of Truro, five miles north of Redruth, and two and a half miles south of St Agnes, in the Powdershire Hundred.
The village is in a former mining area. It has a school,[1] a post office and various shops.
The villages bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and Menagissey (south); Porthtowan is further away westward.[2]
Churches
Mount Hawke parish was created in 1847 from part of the parish of Perranzabuloe and a smaller part of the parish of Illogan. Before this date, Mount Hawke was enumerated under St Agnes.
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 on 5 August 1878 by the Bishop of Truro, Edward Benson.[3][4]
Mount Hawke also has an active Methodist chapel.
Recreation
Mount Hawke is the location of Cornwall's largest indoor skatepark.[5] There is also a cricket club.
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.
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 just over a mile and a half from the junction with the main line west of Chacewater.[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]
References
- ↑ Mount Hawke School
- ↑ Philip's Street Atlas; Cornwall. London: Philip's, 2003; p. 68
- ↑ St John the Baptist, Mount Hawke. A Church Near You. Retrieved April 2009.
- ↑ "Consecration of Mount Hawks Church". The Cornishman (4). 8 August 1878.
- ↑ Mount Hawke.
- ↑ John Vaughan, The Newquay Branch, Oxford Publishing, 1991, ISBN 0-86093-470-5
- ↑ Lewis Reade, Branch Line Memories Volume One, Atlantic Publishers, 1983, ISBN 0-906899-06-0