Balwest (, meaning Western Mine) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Germoe in west Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

The hamlet is on the southern edge of a former mining area, part of a geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite (one of five granite batholiths in Cornwall) which was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore (see also Geology of Cornwall).

A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened at Balwest in 1829 for miners. The building is Grade II listed.

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