Mount Hawke
Coordinates: 50°16′53″N 5°12′31″W / 50.2815°N 5.2085°W
Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately eight miles (11 km) west-northwest of Truro, five miles (8 km) north-northeast of Redruth, and two and a half miles (4 km) south of St Agnes.
The village is in a former mining area in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes. It has a school, Mount Hawke Community Primary School, a post office and various shops. The settlements bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and Menagissey (south); Porthtowan is further away westward.
An electoral ward termed Mount Hawke and Portreath exists. The population as of the 2011 census was 4,401.
Mount Hawke ecclesiastical parish was created in 1847 from part of the parish of Perranzabuloe and a smaller part of the parish of Illogan. Before this date, Mount Hawke was enumerated under St Agnes. The parish has been in the Hundred of Powder and the Truro Registration District since its creation. It is in the rural deanery of Powder and the archdeaconry of Cornwall. The parish church is on the south edge of the village and is dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is built of local stone with Bath stone dressings in the Perpendicular style and was consecrated on 5 August 1878 by the Bishop of Truro, Edward Benson.
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