Balwest

Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Porthleven in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is 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.

Balwest

Balwest (Cornish: Bal West, meaning Western mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Porthleven in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is 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.