Redruth ( , ) is a town and
civil parish in
Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the
Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes
Carn Brea,
Illogan and several satellite villages, stood at 55,400 making it the largest conurbation in Cornwall. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the
A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old
London to
Land's End trunk road (now the
A30), and is approximately west of
Truro, east of
St Ives, north east of
Penzance and north west of
Falmouth.
Camborne and Redruth together form the largest urban area in Cornwall and before local government reorganisation were an
urban district.