St Newlyn East
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St Newlyn East (Cornish: Eglosniwlin) civil parish and village in the Carrick district of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
The parish of St Newlyn East, (usually abbreviated Newlyn East) is about five miles south of Newquay. The parish is named after the patron saint of the church, St. Newlina. The village has a small population (since last census) of 1390 people.
[edit] East Wheal Rose disaster
On 9th July 1846 a disaster at the East Wheal Rose mine was caused by an unusually heavy thunderstorm which lasted an hour and a quarter. It flooded the mine and thirty-nine of the miners - mainly inhabitants of the village and its immediate vicinity, were drowned. The mine was eventually closed in 1881.
After the disaster, enhabitants of St. Newlyn East worked together and dug a pit in remembrance of the miners who died. The pit is still there today, and has been used frequently for church meetings and tea gatherings etc. When the pit was actually made, it was also used for Cornish wrestling, and was recently re-dug and made more usable with funding from the National Lottery Fund.
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Newlyn a fishing village near Penzance in the Penwith district of Cornwall.
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