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Lanner, Cornwall
Cornwall,
England,United-kingdom - TR16
Detailed description is Lanner is a village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
It is situated on the A393 about south-east of Redruth.Lanner is in the St Day, Carharrack and Lanner ward which had a collective population of 5,438 in 2001.
The population of Lanner civil parish was 2,493 in the 2001 census, increasing to 2,690 at the 2011 census.
The village has a primary school, Lanner School.HistoryThe name "Lanner" comes from the Cornish "Lannergh", which means "a clearing".
The village is a former tin and copper mining parish which grew rapidly in the 19th-century, but has been recorded as far back as 1542, and with settlement traces back to the Bronze Age.Michael Loam erected his first man engine at Tresavean mine, Lanner, in 1842.
The mine was, in its heyday, one of the most productive copper mines in Cornwall.Church historyThe parish church, Christ Church, is in the Diocese of Truro and was consecrated on St Swithin's day, 1845.
It is a small stuccoed building and was restored in 1883.
The registers date from 1839.
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