Baldhu (;Miller, G. M. BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 9. , meaning black mine) is a village and parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth It is in the civil parish of Kea.
The parish church of Saint Michael and All Angels, designed by William White, is the burial place of Billy Bray, the revivalist preacher who was born at the nearby hamlet of Twelveheads.Wright, C. Billy Bray in His Own Words; Highland Books, 2004; The church has been deconsecrated and the parish church is now All Saints, Highertown.
Baldhu is a former mining village (the name comes from the Cornish for 'black mine'; "bal" = mine) and it is situated above the Carnon Valley west of Truro.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth The parish was created in 1847 out of parts of Kea and Kenwyn and the church of St Michael was built soon after.
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