Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of St Day, about 2 miles northeast of the centre of Redruth and 3 miles southeast of the coast at Porthtowan, on the A30 road at the junction of the A3047 road that leads west to Camborne and the B3298 road south to Carharrack. The Plymouth to Penzance railway line passes through the village and between 1852 and 1964 it had its own station. A. E. Rodda & Son, the principal maker of clotted cream is based here. The village is in the Gwennap Mining District of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The name Scorrier is first attested as Scoria...
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