PORTREATH (or Basset Cove), 1 ½ miles north-west, 4 from Camborne and 4 from Redruth, is a seaport with four docks, a pier about a quarter of a mile long and warehouses; the construction of the latter was commenced in 1760: previous, however, to this there was a dock on the Tehidy side, completed by Lord de Dunstanville about 1781. A railway from the open port, for minerals only, joins the main line at Cam Brea. Messrs. Bain, Son and Co. of this place, have several steamers employed in exporting copper ore and importing coal and iron, with which the mines in the adjacent districts are supplied. St. Mary’s chapel of ease is a building of stone, in the Early English style, erected in 1841 from designs by Mr. Whitwick, architect, and restored in 1880, at a cost of £170, and consists of chancel and nave, western porch and a bell-cot containing one bell: there are sittings for 223 persons. Here are also Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels. At Nance, overlooking Portreath, are the remains of an ancient encampment.