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Twelveheads
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Twelveheads () is a hamlet east of St Day in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the parish of Chacewater, between Truro and Redruth.
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Twelveheads () is a hamlet east of St Day in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the parish of Chacewater, between Truro and Redruth.
==History and geography== The name comes from the hamlet's mining history. Sets of stamps (machines used for crushing ore) were once used on the dressing floors in the village. The stamps had a total of twelve 'heads'.
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