Halsetown
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Halsetown is a village near St Ives, Cornwall
Cornwall
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, England
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Halsetown is an industrial village planned by the solicitor and politician James Halse and built in the 1830s. There was a tin mine nearby and also a ropeworks.
The ecclesiastical parish was created in 1846 and the parish church (1857) was dedicated to St John the Evangelist.
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