Blackwater is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the parish of St Agnes between Truro and Redruth. The village lies on the old course of the A30 north of the current course which bypasses it. The village has a primary school which serves the village and surrounding settlements.
A Cornish Mining Walk, Blackwater, Cornwall
Wheal Concord headgear for the mine that was reopened in 1980, visited by the Duke of Cornwall in 1981, and closed in 1986 after the tin market crash of 1985
George Frederic Watts, John Passmore Edwards, 1955, National Portrait Gallery, London
St Agnes is a civil parish and a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) north of Redruth and ten miles (16 km) southwest of Newquay. An electoral ward exists stretching as far south as Blackwater. The population at the 2011 census was 7,565.
Churchtown, St Agnes
Trevaunance Cove
Clearing skies over St Agnes Beacon
Domenichino, Saint Agnes, c. 1620, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle