DAY (St.), a village and a chapelry in Gwennap parish, Cornwall. The village stands on an eminence, near Scorrier-Gate r. station, and 2¼ miles E by N of Redruth: commands a view of a wondrous mining region around it; and has a post office‡ under Scorrier, and a fair on 25 July. The chapelry was constituted in 1835. Rated property, £7, 874. Pop., 3, 907. The property is much subdivided. The great consolidated and united mines are here; they extend about 2 miles in length, and penetrate about 1, 740 feet in depth; they have produced more copper annually since 1822 than any other mines in Cornwall; and they have railroad communication with Devoran and Portreath. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £170.* Patron, the Vicar of Gwennap. The church was built in 1828, and has a tower and spire. There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Bryanites. A chapel once stood here, which was a great resort of pilgrims.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))