Everything about St Day totally explained
St Day is a town and
civil parish in the
Kerrier district of
Cornwall,
UK, situated between the village of
Chacewater and the larger town of
Redruth.
St Day is also located very near to the former mining area of
Poldice and the associated hamlets of
Todpool,
Creegbrawse and
Crofthandy. The region's mining activity in the 19th century afforded St Day a considerable measure of wealth during that period.
Today St Day has been singled out as a place of special interest at the heart of the
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site along with the exclusive beach resorts of
St Agnes, Chapel Porth and
Porthtowan.
Industrial History/Significance
St Day was a boom-time market centre for the richest and perhaps most famous copper mining district in the world from the 1500s up to the 1830s. The population, wealth and activity in St Day declined steadily from about 1870 onwards, today the population is smaller than in 1841. It is now essentially a residential village.
The Wheal Gorland mine in St Day is the
type locality for the minerals
Chenevixite,
Clinoclase,
Cornwallite and
Liroconite.
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