Traditional county: Cornwall · Region: South West
Explore Hewas Water, Cornwall with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Hewas Water map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hewas Water, Cornwall, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Hewas Water |
| Traditional County | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.314898 |
| Longitude | -4.856612 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Hewas Water emerges from the damp, low-lying folds of the Cornish countryside where the light often catches the silver veins of trickling brooks. It lies 3.3 miles west-south-west of St Austell (from St Austell: bearing 241°T, OS grid SW 967 500), and is situated west of Sticker village. The land here carries the quiet exhaustion of an industrial past, marked by the rusted memory of tin extraction that once stirred these valleys. To the east, the earth rises toward the high, windswept ridge of Sticker Down, a vantage point where the wind strips the air of all artifice. The horizon is broken by the skeletal remnants of the South Polgooth Mine, where moss now colonises the stone ruins like a slow, green tide. Hewas Water remains tethered to this rugged topography, a place where the modern road cuts through a landscape still haunted by the deep, subterranean work of earlier generations. Winter rains bring a particular clarity to the watercourses, turning the ditches into miniature, rushing rivers that mirror the grey, slate-heavy skies. Through these hollows, the air tastes of wet granite and the cold, unyielding ambition of the men who once dug beneath the surface of this parish.
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Explore Hewas Water, Cornwall, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.314898, -4.856612. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |