Castallack

Hamlet in Cornwall, England

Human settlement in England

St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul

Unitary authority

Cornwall

Ceremonial county

Cornwall

Region

South West

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St Ives

List of places: UK; England; Cornwall

50°04′19″N 5°33′47″W / 50.072°N 5.563°W / 50.072; -5.563

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 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

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 978-0-319-23289-7.
^ Anon (2006). Kirkham, Graham; Herring, Peter (eds.). "Castallack Roundago". Cornish Archaeology. 41–42 (2002–3). Cornwall Archaeological Society: 186. ISSN 0070-024X.
^ 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.