Balwest
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240px Balwest Methodist chapel, a Grade II listed building |
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Balwest shown within Cornwall
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OS grid reference | SW594298 |
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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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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.
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