Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately west-northwest of Truro, north-northeast of

Redruth Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also inc ...

, and south of St Agnes. The village is in a former mining area in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes. It has a school, Mount Hawke Community Primary School, a post office and various shops. The settlements bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and

Menagissey Menagissey is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is half-a-mile south of Mount Hawke about three miles (5 km) north-northeast of Redruth in the civil parish of St Agnes, Cornwall, St Agnes. It is included in ...

(south); Porthtowan is further away westward. The village is represented on Cornwall Council by the electoral division of Mount Hawke and Portreath. The population as of the 2011 census was 4,401.

Churches

Mount Hawke ecclesiastical 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 has been in the Hundred of Powder and the Truro Registration District since its creation. It is in the rural deanery of Powder and the archdeaconry of Cornwall. 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 Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Originally obtained from the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England. Its honey colouring gives the World Heritage City of ...

dressings in the Perpendicular style and was consecrated on 5 August 1878 by the Bishop of Truro,

Edward Benson Edward Benson may refer to: * Edward White Benson (1829–1896), Archbishop of Canterbury * E. F. Benson Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story wr ...

. Mount Hawke also has an active Methodist chapel.''Church History.''
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.

Recreation

Mount Hawke is the location of Cornwall's largest indoor skatepark. There is also a cricket club which plays in the Cornwall League. 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 The Truro and Newquay Railway was a Great Western Railway line in Cornwall, United Kingdom designed to keep the rival London and South Western Railway (LSWR) out of the west of the county. The line was completed in 1905 and closed in 1963. Hi ...

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 The Truro and Newquay Railway was a Great Western Railway line in Cornwall, United Kingdom designed to keep the rival London and South Western Railway (LSWR) out of the west of the county. The line was completed in 1905 and closed in 1963. His ...

was the first such halt for eastbound trains 1 miles from the junction with the

main line Mainline, ''Main line'', or ''Main Line'' may refer to: Transportation Railway * Main line (railway), the principal artery of a railway system * Main line railway preservation, the practice of operating preserved trains on an operational railw ...

west of

Chacewater Chacewater ( kw, Dowr an Chas) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated approximately east of Redruth. The hamlets of Carnhot, Cox Hill, Creegbrawse, Hale Mills, Jolly's Bottom, Salem, Saveock, Scorrier, Todpool, ...

. The halt was nearly a mile from the village on the road to

Chiverton Cross Chiverton Cross is a road junction in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, about four miles (6 kilometres) north-east of Redruth and five miles (8 km) west of Truro at . Its name derives from Chyverton House which is in the extreme ea ...

. The line closed in February 1963, the first Cornish railway to close under the

Beeching axe The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...

Notable residents

British singer-songwriter Alex Parks, winner of the television show '' Fame Academy'' in 2003, was brought up in Mount Hawke."Biography of Alex Parks."
''BBC.'' Retrieved April 2010.

References

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