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Ponsanooth
Ponsanooth shown within Cornwall |
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| OS grid reference | SW755375 |
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| Shire county | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Truro |
| Postcode district | TR3 |
| Dialling code | 01872 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Cornwall | |
Ponsanooth is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles south east of Redruth and two and a half miles north west of Penryn on the A393 Redruth to Falmouth road. Ponsanooth was first recorded in 1613 as Ponsanwoth (from Cornish "Pons an wooth", i.e. bridge at the stream).[1]
The church of St Michael and All Angels is now part of a larger benefice, sharing a single vicar with Mabe.
The River Kennall runs nearby: in the 19th century, this river worked a flour mill and a number of gunpowder mills, machinery at a foundry, and a paper mill. The gunpowder mills supplied many of the mines of west Cornwall until 1910, by which time gunpowder had been largely replaced by high explosives. The site of one of the ruined mills is now within a Nature Reserve. Frederick Hamilton Davey the botanist (died September 23, 1915) was born at Ponsanooth and was buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery there.
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