OS grid reference SW594298 Country England Post town Helston Shire county Cornwall | Region South West Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district TR13 UK parliament constituency St Ives | |
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Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Porthleven in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom . According to the Post Office the 2011 Census population was included in the civil parish of Germoe.
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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