What is St Dennis, Cornwall?
{{Infobox UK place | country = England | metropolitan_borough = | dial_code = 01726 | postcode_area = PL | postcode_district = PL26 | post_town = ST AUSTELL | constituency_westminster = [[St Austell and Newquay (UK Parliament constituency)|St Austell and Newquay]] | region = South West England | metropolitan_county = | lieutenancy_england = [[Cornwall]] | map_type = Cornwall | unitary_england = [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]] | population_ref = (United Kingdom Census 2011) | population = 2,785 | cornish_name = Tredhinas | official_name = St Dennis | coordinates = {{coord|50.383|-4.883|display=inline,title}} | static_image_caption = St Dennis from the air showing the church built inside a hillfort | static_image = St Dennis from the air.jpg | os_grid_reference = SX951577 }}'''St Dennis''' is a parish and village in [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom]]. The village is on the B3279 road between [[Newquay]] and [[St Austell]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|9780319229385}}</ref> St Dennis had a population of 2,696 in the 2001 [[census]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790343 |title=Census 2001 |access-date=2011-06-11 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175229/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790343 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The village is famous for its church built on the site of an [[Iron Age]] hillfort. The area is full of tips and clay pits of [[china clay]] mining but St Dennis village itself is designated an 'island settlement' which prevents encroachment by the china clay industry. Much of the parish is up to 500 feet above sea level, and the countryside is moorland with small fields enclosed b