Balwest
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Balwest (, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.
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It is catalogued under the topic Hamlets in Cornwall.
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Place details
- Locality
- Germoe
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Cornwall
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Wesleyan Chapel, Balwest - geograph.org.uk - 233469.jpg
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- postal code
- TR13
- OS grid reference
- SW594298
- historic county
- Cornwall
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Balwest (, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balwest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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