Balwest
Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.
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Balwest Methodist chapel, a Grade II listed building | |
Balwest Location within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SW594298 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Helston |
| Postcode district | TR13 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former mining area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite (one of five granite batholiths in Cornwall) which was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore (see also Geology of Cornwall).
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners. The building is Grade II listed.
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