Balwest
Balwest is a hamlet in the civil parish of Porthleven in west Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom
. It is in the civil parish of Germoe.
The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former mining area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite which was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore.
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners. The building is Grade II listed.
