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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{More citations needed|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|map_type= Cornwall
|coordinates = {{coord|50.3167|-4.8405|display=inline,title}}
|static_image= The Village of Sticker - geograph.org.uk - 113308.jpg |official_name= Sticker
|cornish_name= Stekyer
|population=
|population_ref=
|civil_parish= [[St Mewan]]
|unitary_england= [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[Cornwall]]
|region= South West England
|constituency_westminster= [[St Austell and Newquay (UK Parliament constituency)|St Austell and Newquay]]
|post_town= ST AUSTELL
|postcode_district = PL26
|postcode_area= PL
|dial_code= 01726
|os_grid_reference= SW978502
}}

'''Sticker''' ({{langx|kw|Stekyer}})<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |title=Cornish Language Partnership : Place names in the SWF |publisher=Magakernow.org.uk |date= |access-date=2015-09-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |archive-date=May 15, 2013 }}</ref> is a former mining village in south [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. It lies in the parish of [[St Mewan]]. The nearest town is [[St Austell]] three miles (4.5 km) to the north-east.

==Great Hewas Mine==
In 1785, Sticker was described as "a new place"<ref name = Wesley>J. Wesley''Journal'', Vol. 4, p. 305 (1867)</ref> and it was a settlement for workers in the Great Hewas Mine on its western outskirts. Great Hewas was worked in the 18th century. A 45-inch [[Watt steam engine|Boulton & Watt pumping engine]] was installed in the 1790s. By the 19th century, the mine employed over 250 people, producing not only [[tin]], but [[copper]], [[lead]], and some [[silver]]. Two smaller mines to the west, Ventonwyn and [[Hewas Water]], worked alongside Great Hewas. The last of these mines ceased production in 1926, though the chimney of Ventonwyn engine house is still a local landmark.<ref>[http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/history/greathewas.php ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220014944/http://www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/history/greathewas.php |date=December 20, 2009 }}</ref>

==Village history==
[[File:St Mark's Mission Church, Sticker - geograph.org.uk - 113340.jpg|thumb|left|St Mark's Mission Church]]

[[John Wesley]], founder of [[Methodism]], preached at Sticker in August 1785,<ref name = Wesley/> when the Methodist theologian [[Adam Clarke]] was one of the circuit ministers for the village.<ref>A. Clarke et al., An account of the infancy, religious and literary life of Adam Clarke, p.178 (1833)</ref> A Methodist chapel in Lower Sticker was built by miners in their spare time in 1836. A second chapel was built in Sticker in 1876.<ref name=Sticker>[http://www.stickercornwall.co.uk/page14.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605072412/http://www.stickercornwall.co.uk/page14.html |date=June 5, 2010 }}</ref>

An [[Church of England|Anglican]] church was designed by architect [[George Edmund Street]] in 1848/49,<ref>A. E. Street, ''A Memoir of George Edmund Street'', p. 11 (1972)</ref> but was never built. The current St Mark's Mission Church<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/113340 |title=St Mark's Mission Church, Sticker (C) Tony Atkin :: Geograph Britain and Ireland |publisher=Geograph.org.uk |date=2006-01-28 |accessdate=2015-09-25}}</ref> was designed by [[James Piers St Aubyn]] and opened in 1877.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Mewan.html |access-date=May 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |title=Parish Church of St Mewan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716192624/http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Mewan.html |archive-date=July 16, 2011 }}</ref> St Mark's is a [[chapel of ease]] for the parish church at St Mewan.

One of the oldest establishments in the village is the Hewas Inn, formerly the Great Hewas Inn, which was rebuilt in 1825<ref name = Sticker/> and is now a [[Grade II listed building]].

==The village today==
Since the 1960s, large numbers of bungalows and housing estates have been built in and around the village, which is within commuting distance of St Austell and [[Truro]]. As a result, Sticker now has around 450 homes, a population of about 1150 and an electorate of around 850. It has a shop and post office and a regular bus service to St Austell, Truro and the surrounding villages. The village hall is maintained and run by Sticker Village Association. St Mark's church and the Methodist chapel have community halls.<ref name = Sticker/>

[[David Tremlett]], the conceptual artist, grew up in Sticker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geringlopez.com/artists/david-tremlett/bio/|title=Gering & López Gallery - Artist bio|accessdate=2008-09-26}}</ref>

==Sport==
The village also has its own football club, [[Sticker A.F.C.]] who currently play in the [[South West Peninsula League]] at Burngullow Lane.<ref name="cornwallfa.com">Cornwall FA: [http://www.cornwallfa.com/news/2017/oct/10/sticker-switch-on-new-lights Sticker Switch on New Lights - Cornwall FA], accessdate: February 2, 2020</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Villages in Cornwall]]

Sticker, Cornwall - Revision history

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