St Newlyn East
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St Newlyn East civil parish and village in the Carrick district of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
The parish of St Newlyn East, (usually abbreviated Newlyn East) is about five miles south of Newquay. The parish is named after the patron saint of the church.
[edit] East Wheal Rose disaster
On 9th July 1846 a disaster at the East Wheal Rose mine was caused by an unusually heavy thunderstorm which lasted an hour and a quarter. It flooded the mine and thirty-nine of the miners - mainly inhabitants of the village and its immediate vicinity, were drowned. The mine was eventually closed in 1881.
[edit] See also
Newlyn a fishing village near Penzance in the Penwith district of Cornwall.
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