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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.〔Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7〕 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,〔(Main. ) Mount Hawke School. Retrieved April 2010.〕 a post office and various shops. The settlements bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and Menagissey (south); Porthtowan is further away westward.〔''Philip's Street Atlas; Cornwall''. London: Philip's, 2003; p. 68〕 An electoral ward termed Mount Hawke and Portreath exists. The population at the 2011 census was 4,401. ==Churches== Mount Hawke ecclesiastical parish was created in 1847 from part of the parish of Perranzabuloe and a smaller part of the parish of Illogan.〔N.B. St Agnes was in the hundred of Pydar and Illogan was in the hundred of Penwith.〕 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.〔(Mount Hawke. ) GENUKI. Retrieved April 2010.〕 It is in the rural deanery of Powder and the archdeaconry of Cornwall.〔Jago, W. (1925) "An Ecclesiastical Map of Cornwall and parts of Devon together forming the Diocese of Truro, 1877", in: ''Cornish Church Guide''. Truro: Blackford〕 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.〔(St John the Baptist, Mount Hawke. ) A Church Near You. Retrieved April 2009.〕 Mount Hawke also has an active Methodist chapel.〔(''Church History.'' ) Mount Hawke. GENUKI. Retrieved 23 September 2012. Also see: (Mount Hawke Parish Church ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Hawke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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