| Official Name: | Wheal Kitty |
| Country: | England |
| Map Type: | Cornwall |
| Static Image: | St Agnes, Wheal Kitty - geograph.org.uk - 92307.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 250px |
| Coordinates: | 50.31°N -5.2°W |
| Region: | South West England |
Wheal Kitty is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located about half a mile north east of St Agnes on the Goonlaze Downs plateau. It contains the headquarters of Surfers Against Sewage.
The village was noted for the Wheal Kitty Mine with a depth of some 180 fathoms. In ancient times tin was mined in the area.[1] The mine reopened in the 1830s, mining tin and copper ore but was closed in 1842 before reopening ten years later.[1] Two Cornish engine houses and four stacks remain with a 65-inch beam engine constructed by the Perran Foundry in 1852 and installed here in 1910. It pumped water from Sara's Shaft and was reported to be some 950 feet deep.[2] It employed about 220 people in 1914 and closed in 1930.[3]