CHASEWATER, a hamlet partly in the parish of
ST-KEA, and partly in the parish of KENWYN, western
division of the hundred of POWDER, county of CORNWALL,
5 miles (W. by S.) from Truro. A chapel is now
being erected under the late act of parliament for building
additional churches, towards defraying the expense
of which the commissioners granted £3000; it will
contain one thousand five hundred and four sittings, of
which one thousand two hundred and two will be fr-ee.
There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. In
the neighbourhood are several rich copper mines: the
Chasewater mine has a. steam-engine, which, at the time
of its erection in 1813, was the most powerful then
constructed: the adit of this mine, in its course of
twenty-five miles, receives the waters of many others.
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and discharges itself into a creek in Falmouth harbour.