Castallack

Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna.[1]

Castallack
Castallack
Castallack is located in Cornwall
Castallack
Castallack
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSW451253
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPENZANCE
Postcode districtTR19
Dialling code01736
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

Castallack lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

Castallack Roundago (grid reference SW44822540) is a good example of a Romano-British round despite it having been partly destroyed in the 19th-century.[2]

Granite from the Castallack quarries was used mainly for gravestones, activity finished in the mid-1980s.[3]

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 978-0-319-23289-7.
  2. Anon (2006). Kirkham, Graham; Herring, Peter (eds.). "Castallack Roundago". Cornish Archaeology. Cornwall Archaeological Society. 41–42 (2002–3): 186. ISSN 0070-024X.
  3. Bristow, Colin (2014). "The Geology Of The Building And Decorative Stones Of Cornwall. Supplementary Publications. Granite and Elvans". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. doi:10.1144/SP391.6. S2CID 130306985. Retrieved 30 August 2019.


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