About Calstock
Photo by Nick Lansley
Calstock is a civil parish and a large village in South East Cornwall, on the border with Devon. The village is situated on the River Tamar 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Tavistock and 10 miles (16 km) north of Plymouth.
The parish had a population of 6,095 in the 2001 census and encompasses 5,760 acres (23.3 km2) of land, 70 acres (0.28 km2) of water, and 44 acres (0.18 km2) of the tidal Tamar.
As well as Calstock, other settlements in the parish include Albaston, Chilsworthy, Gunnislake, Harrowbarrow, St Ann's Chapel, Latchley and Metherell.
Calstock village is within the Tamar Valley Area Of Natural Beauty and is famous for its mining heritage landscape. On one side is Devon the other Cornwall. The Tamar Valley extends North from the broad estuary at Plymouth to the intricate, deeply incised river that meanders just below Launceston and Tavistock. It borders Dartmoor National Park to the East and the Kit Hill area to the West.
Calstock is twinned with Saint-Thuriau in the Morbihan department of Brittany in North-Western France.
The parish had a population of 6,095 in the 2001 census and encompasses 5,760 acres (23.3 km2) of land, 70 acres (0.28 km2) of water, and 44 acres (0.18 km2) of the tidal Tamar.
As well as Calstock, other settlements in the parish include Albaston, Chilsworthy, Gunnislake, Harrowbarrow, St Ann's Chapel, Latchley and Metherell.
Calstock village is within the Tamar Valley Area Of Natural Beauty and is famous for its mining heritage landscape. On one side is Devon the other Cornwall. The Tamar Valley extends North from the broad estuary at Plymouth to the intricate, deeply incised river that meanders just below Launceston and Tavistock. It borders Dartmoor National Park to the East and the Kit Hill area to the West.
Calstock is twinned with Saint-Thuriau in the Morbihan department of Brittany in North-Western France.