A gunpowder works and a cheese dairy
The village is about four miles South-East of Redruth and two and a half miles North-West of Penryn on the A393 road. Until 1st April 2021 the civil parish was called St. Gluvias which does not include the Penryn suburb St. Gluvias. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1,668.
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 and a public house.
The River Kennall runs nearby: in the 19th century, this river worked a flour mill and a number of gunpowder mills, 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 and used as a forestry walk.
About one mile North of the village is the Lynher Dairy's shop.
Frederick Hamilton Davey the botanist (1868-1915) was born at Ponsanooth and was buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery there.
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