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St Austell

Accommodation in and around St Austell

Featured accommodation

Appletree House Charlestown,near Eden, Fowey, Mevagissey
Little Pisky Cottage Bed And Breakfast
Meadow Lakes
Rivendell B&b
Seaview International Holiday Park

About St Austell

The old market town of St Austell is just a few miles from the coast and is one of Cornwall's biggest towns. It was for centuries an important mining town but it was a discovery in the mid 18th century that really put the town on the map. William Cookworthy, a chemist from Devon, discovered massive deposits of kaolin (a form of decomposed granite), or china clay in the area. The mineral is used in not only the production of porcelain but a whole host of industries including paper, pharmecuticals and textiles. The extraction of china clay became the mainstay of local industry and accelerated the growth of the town from the eighteenth century onwards. One estimate…...