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Twelveheads
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Twelveheads () is a hamlet east of St Day in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the parish of Chacewater, between Truro and Redruth.
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- Locality
- Twelveheads
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Chacewater
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Twelveheads Methodist Church - geograph.org.uk - 1051215.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01872
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- Commons category
- Twelveheads
- postal code
- TR4
- OS grid reference
- SW760424
- historic county
- Cornwall
- P12749
- Margarete Buber-Neumann
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Twelveheads () is a hamlet east of St Day in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the parish of Chacewater, between Truro and Redruth.
==History and geography== The name comes from the hamlet's mining history. Sets of stamps (machines used for crushing ore) were once used on the dressing floors in the village. The stamps had a total of twelve 'heads'.
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