Blackwater, Cornwall

Blackwater is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in the parish of St Agnes between Truro and Redruth. The village lies on the old course of the A30 north of the current course which bypasses it[1]. The village has a primary school (built in 1877) which serves the village and surrounding settlements.

The Victorian philanthropist and journalist John Passmore Edwards was born here.[2] Wheal Concord mine, owned by CTS Mining Ltd[3] closed after 1987: it had a 2 ft gauge railway which used battery electric locomotives.

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 9780319231494
  2. ^ A. J. A. Morris, ‘Edwards, John Passmore (1823–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 15 Nov 2007
  3. ^ Bryant, R.S. (ed.) (1987). Industrial Locomotives, including preserved and minor railway locomotives. Industrial Railway Society. ISBN 0901096555. 

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