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{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|map_type= Cornwall
|coordinates = {{coord|50.288|-5.216|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Banns
|cornish_name=
|population=
|population_ref=
|civil_parish= [[St Agnes, Cornwall|St Agnes]]
|unitary_england= [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[Cornwall]]
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= [[Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)|Camborne and Redruth]]
|post_town= TRURO
|postcode_district = TR4
|postcode_area= TR
|dial_code= 01209
|os_grid_reference= SW 710 480
}}

'''Banns''' is a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in west [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom situated between [[Mount Hawke]] and [[Porthtowan]]<ref name="OS">Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23148-7}}</ref> at {{gbmapping|SW 710 480}} in the [[civil parish]] of [[St Agnes, Cornwall|St Agnes]].<ref name="SAF">[http://www.stagnesforum.com/walk3b.php ''Porthtowan, Banns Vale, Mount Hawke and Chapel Porth.''] St Agnes Forum. p. 2. Retrieved 25 September 2012.</ref> The [[South West Coast Path]] is {{convert|2|km|abbr=on}} to the west of the hamlet.<ref name="OS"/> Banns is included in the [[Mount Hawke and Portreath (electoral division)|Mount Hawke and Portreath]] division of [[Cornwall Council]].

There is another place called Banns in the civil parish of [[St Buryan]].<ref>[[Weatherhill, Craig]] (2009). ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. {{ISBN|9781904808220}}; p. 20</ref>

==Description==
There are three principal features that define the Banns area: the vale or [[Valley#Hollows|hollow]], a mine and a farm, named Banns Farm.<ref name="SAF"/> Cottages at Bannsvale Farm in Prince Royal Meadows are holiday rentals.<ref>[http://www.bannsvalefarmcottages.com/about.html ''About.''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922111825/http://www.bannsvalefarmcottages.com/about.html |date=September 22, 2014 }} Bannsvale Farm Cottages. Retrieved 25 September 2012.</ref><ref name="BFC">[http://www.bannsvalefarmcottages.com/Bcontact.html ''Contact - map (Prince Royal Meadows / Banns location).''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626005118/http://www.bannsvalefarmcottages.com/Bcontact.html |date=June 26, 2012 }} Bannsvale Farm Cottages. Retrieved 25 September 2012.</ref>

In 1880, there was also a place named Lower Banns near Banns in St Agnes. It was a 13-acre property owned by Francis Harris in 1873.<ref>Great Britain. Ordnance Survey. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=fdYHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 Book of Reference to the Plan of the Parish of St Agnes in the County of Cornwall]''. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office; 1880 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 34.</ref><ref>England. Local Government Board. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=-RJPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA12 England and Wales. Return of Owners of Land, 1873: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty]''. Her Majesty's Stationery Office; 1875 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 12.</ref>

The Banns area includes a meadow named Prince Royal Meadows.<ref name="BFC"/>

==Mining==
Banns, which means hollow, is inland from Porthtowan and is surrounded by mines, such as [[Wheal Coates]] and [[Tywarnhayle Mine]]. There was a small abandoned copper mine named Wheal Banns.<ref name="SAF"/><ref>Great Britain. Home Office. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=NMJXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18 List of the plans of abandoned mines deposited in the Home Office under the Coal & Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts]''. Her Majesty's Stationery Office; 1904 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 18.</ref>

The mine was also called the Prince Royal Mine. The mining area was described in 1828 as follows: "Crossing Prince's Common, a most desolate scene meets the eye; the surface is covered with small fragments of red decomposing [[slate]], largely intermixed with pieces of [[quartz]]; the uniformity of this desert (which extends for many miles to the right and left) is only broken by the numerous heaps of rubbish, the remains of former [[mining operations]]. The fragments of rocks, thus exposed are of a bright red; and are derived from a slate similar to that which succeeds the [[felspar]]-rocks north of Cardrew."<ref>Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_lkLAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA304 Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall]''. 1828 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 304.</ref>

By 1843 there was £10,000 invested in the mine improvements with a new company.<ref>Joseph Yelloly Watson. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=37NJDgT80dcC&pg=PA46 A compendium of British mining, with statistical notices of the principal mines in Cornwall: to which is added. The history and uses of metals, and a glossary of the terms and usages of mining]''. 1843 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 46.</ref> In 1877 Prince Royal Mine, a tin mine, was owned by L. Walsad and a person with the surname of Duignan. It was located in Scorrier, St Agnes.<ref>Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=p0ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA398 House of Commons papers]''. HMSO; 1877 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 398.</ref>

In 1881 the mine, now called Wheal Banns, produced and sold a little bit more than a ton of tin, which required a payment of dues to the Duke of Cornwall.<ref>Joseph Henry Collins. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=lqJBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA654 Observations on the west of England mining region: being an account of the mineral deposits and economic geology of the region, and forming vol. XIV of the transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall]''. Author; 1912 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 408.</ref><ref>Robert Hunt. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tacEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA8 Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology]''. 1882 [cited 25 September 2012]. p. 8.</ref>

==References==
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{{St Agnes Parish, Cornwall}}
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[[Category:Hamlets in Cornwall]]

Banns, Cornwall - Revision history

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