Ponsanooth

Ponsanooth (Cornish: Pons an Woodh,^[1] meaning "bridge at the stream")^[2] is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about four miles southeast of Redruth and two and a half miles northwest of Penryn on the A393 road Redruth to Falmouth road. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 1184.^[3]

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Ponsanooth Cornish: Pons an Woodh
Ponsanooth Location within Cornwall
Area	0.4175 km2 (0.1612 sq mi)
Population	1,184 (2019 estimate)
• Density	2,836/km2 (7,350/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SW755375
Civil parish	Ponsanooth
District	Cornwall
Shire county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Truro
Postcode district	TR3
Dialling code	01872
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
List of places UK England Cornwall 50.19700°N 5.14296°W / 50.19700; -5.14296

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The church of St Michael and All Angels is now part of a larger benefice, sharing a single vicar with Mabe. Also the village has a shop which includes a post office, village hall, primary school ^[4] and a public house called The Stag Pub.^[5]

The River Kennall runs nearby: in the 19th century, this river worked a flour mill and a number of gunpowder mills,^[6] machinery at a foundry, and a paper mill. The gunpowder mills supplied many of the mines of west Cornwall until 1910, by which time gunpowder had been largely replaced by high explosives. The site of one of the ruined mills is now within a Nature Reserve. Frederick Hamilton Davey the botanist (died 23 September 1915) was born at Ponsanooth and was buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery there.