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{{Short description|Hamlet in west Cornwall, England}}
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[[File:CrowsanWra.jpg|thumb|Celtic cross at Crows-an-Wra junction]]
'''Crows-an-Wra''' ({{langx|kw|Krows an Wragh}},<ref>[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 Cornish Language Partnership - Place name list] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=May 15, 2013 }}</ref> meaning ''the witch's cross'') is a hamlet in West [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the [[civil parish]] of [[St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul]] approximately four miles (6&nbsp;km) northeast of [[Land's End]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23148-7}}</ref>

==History and description==
The [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] consists of a cluster of 13 houses along the [[A30 road]], the oldest being the Grade II listed Haydon Cottage and other more distant dwellings including those at [[Boscarne]] and the hamlet of Rissick. Haydon Cottage was built in the 17th century; blacksmith William Haydon was born here in 1625 and died in London in 1666 in the [[Great Fire of London]].<ref>in National Archives</ref> The hamlet developed with the local  mines of West Wheal Rissick, Wheal Lovell, and West Wheal Margaret, which in the mid-19th century produced high grade tin. The mines subsequently closed and a china clay works lies nearby.{{clarify|date=July 2022}}

The name Crows-an-Wra translates from the [[Cornish language|Cornish]] as "witches cross",  and there is evidence that the site was important in [[Neolithic]] times, as well as a pre-Conquest [[Celtic cross]] and a [[holy well]].  The hamlet once had its own [[Methodist]] chapel built 1904 replacing an earlier chapel of 1832, but the 1904 chapel had long since fallen into disuse and was converted into a house in 1983.

The composer [[Graham Fitkin]] was born here.

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