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St Erth (Cornish: Lannudhno/Praze Pras) is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 and civil parish
Civil parish

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a civil parish is usually the lowest unit of local government, below district and county councils....
 in the Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
 district of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The parish shares boundaries with Ludgvan
Ludgvan

Ludgvan is a village and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish includes the villages of Ludgvan, Crowlas, Canon's Town and Long Rock....
 in the west, Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
 in the north, St Hilary
St Hilary, Cornwall

St Hilary is a village and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom....
 in the south and the district of Kerrier
Kerrier

Kerrier is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most southerly district in the United Kingdom, other than the Isles of Scilly....
 in the east.

The village takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages
Dark Ages

Dark Age or Dark Ages is a term in historiography referring to a period of cultural decline or societal collapse that took place in Western Europe between the Decline of the Roman Empire and the eventual recovery of learning....
, and is located at the old crossing point of the river Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
.

The current church of St Erth was built around 1215, though an older church is said to have stood on St Erth Hill overlooking the village.






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St Erth (Cornish: Lannudhno/Praze Pras) is a village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 and civil parish
Civil parish

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a civil parish is usually the lowest unit of local government, below district and county councils....
 in the Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
 district of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The parish shares boundaries with Ludgvan
Ludgvan

Ludgvan is a village and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish includes the villages of Ludgvan, Crowlas, Canon's Town and Long Rock....
 in the west, Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
 in the north, St Hilary
St Hilary, Cornwall

St Hilary is a village and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom....
 in the south and the district of Kerrier
Kerrier

Kerrier is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most southerly district in the United Kingdom, other than the Isles of Scilly....
 in the east.

The village takes its name from Saint Erc, one of the many Irish saints who brought Christianity to Cornwall during the Dark Ages
Dark Ages

Dark Age or Dark Ages is a term in historiography referring to a period of cultural decline or societal collapse that took place in Western Europe between the Decline of the Roman Empire and the eventual recovery of learning....
, and is located at the old crossing point of the river Hayle
Hayle

Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
.

The current church of St Erth was built around 1215, though an older church is said to have stood on St Erth Hill overlooking the village. St. Erth also has a railway station
St Erth railway station

St Erth railway station serves the village of St Erth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station is about 3/4 mile from the village. It is the junction for the St Ives Bay Line to St Ives, Cornwall....
 situated 0.75 miles from the village, along the branch line
St Ives Bay Line

The St Ives Bay Line is a railway line from St Erth to St Ives, Cornwall in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It was opened in 1877 by the St Ives Branch Railway, and subsumed into the Great Western Railway the following year....
 between St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives is a seaside resort, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne....
 and Penzance
Penzance

Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK.Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and Incorporation in 1614, it has a population of 20,255 and is currently Penwith's principal town....
.

The old coaching road once led through the village, before the building of the Causeway along the edge of the Hayle Estuary
Estuary

An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....
 between the wars. The Star Inn, in the village centre, is a fine coaching inn
Coaching inn

In Europe, from approximately the mid 17th century for a period of about 200 years, the coaching inn, sometimes called a coaching house or staging inn, was a vital part of the inland transport infrastructure, as an inn serving coach travelers....
 dating from the fourteenth/fifteenth centuries. It was along this route that tin was carried upcountry from the stannaries
Stannary

The word stannary is historically applied to:*A tin mining, especially in Devon or Mining in Cornwall*A region containing tin works *A chartered entity comprising such a region, its works, and its workers...
 of Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
.

St Erth Pits was the site of choice for the extraction of clay for the fixing of candles to the helmets of miners. It also was the site of significant fossil
Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or trace fossil of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous Rock formations and sedimentary rock layers is known as the fossil record....
 finds and to this day is a Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Res...
 (SSSI). However, the main use of the sand
Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.As the term is used by geologists, sand particles range in diameter from 0.0625 to 2 millimeters....
 in this location was for the metal foundries
Foundry

A foundry is a factory which produces metal castings from either ferrous or non-ferrous metals alloys. Metals are turned into parts by melting the metal into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and then removing the mold material or casting....
 throughout Cornwall and beyond. The sand grains are found coated with a thin film of clay. With gentle pressure and the correct percentage of water the sand grains will bind together and can be used for making a sand mould into which molten metals can be poured from making engineering castings. A good source of clay for the fixing of candles to the helmets of miners is St Agnes Beacon.

Local Government


For the purposes of local government St Erth forms a civil parish and elects 11 parish councillors every 4 years to the St Erth parish council . The principal local authorities in the area are the Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
 District Council and the Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 County Council.

Twinning

  • Ploulec'h
    Ploulec'h

    Ploulec'h is a Communes of France in the C?tes-d'Armor Departments of France in Bretagne in northwestern France....
     (Brittany
    Brittany

    Brittany is a former independent Celtic nations monarchy and duchy, now incorporated into France. It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the historic province and independent duchy....
    )

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