Liskeard i/lɪsˈkɑrd/ (Cornish: Lyskerrys) is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Population: 8,667
Latitude: 50° 27' 16.20" N
Longitude: -4° 27' 54.61" W
Kit Hill (Cornish: Bre Skowl), at 334 metres high, dominates the area between Callington and the River Tamar in southeast Cornwall, England, UK. The word 'Kit' comes from Old English for Kite, a reference to birds of prey (and not specifically the R…
King Arthur's Hall is a megalithic enclosure on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, UK. It is thought to be a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age ceremonial site.
St Martin-by-Looe (Cornish: Penndrumm) is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is immediately east of the town and parish of Looe, seven miles (11 km) south of Liskeard. The parish is in the Liskeard Registra…
St Keyne (Cornish: Sen Keyn) is a civil parish and village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish lies between the parishes of Liskeard and Duloe. The parish population at the 2011 census was 492.
Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, Plymouth docks from enemy naval attack.
Polyphant (Cornish: Pollefans), recorded as Polefant c. 1170, is a village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is north of the civil parish of Lewannick, five miles (8 km) west of the town of Launceston near the convergence of the River In…
No Man's Land is a crossroads hamlet in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles (3 km) northeast of Looe on the B3253 road to Widegates.
Newport (Cornish: Porthnowyth) is a suburb of the town of Launceston in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Originally a separate settlement, Newport is immediately north of the town from which it is separated by the River Kensey.
The Liskeard and Looe Union Canal was a broad canal between Liskeard and Looe in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Liskeard Grammar School in Liskeard, Cornwall dates back to 1550. In its most recent incarnation it was originally known as the County School, and was built by the Cornwall Education Committee.
Herodsfoot is a village in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles (6 km) southwest of Liskeard and five miles (8 km) north of Looe at a point where two tributaries of the West Looe river join.
Fowey railway station was a station in Fowey, Cornwall on the Fowey to Newquay line.
Fowey Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Fowey on the south coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
The East Cornwall Mineral Railway was a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) railway line, opened in 1872 to connect mines and quarries in the Callington and Gunnislake areas in east Cornwall with shipping at Calstock on the River Tamar. The line included a rope-wo…
Dobwalls and Trewidland (Cornish: Fos an Mogh & Trewydhlann) is a civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Colliford Lake is a reservoir on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Covering more than 900 acres (3.6 km2), it is the largest lake in Cornwall. It is situated south of the A30 trunk road near the village of Bolventor, the approximate ce…
Carnglaze Caverns consists of three man-made caverns formed as part of a slate quarry in the Loveny Valley, near the village of St Neot, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK. In recent years Carnglaze Caverns has been used as an unusual concert venue.
Callington railway station was a railway station in the village of Kelly Bray one mile north of the centre of the small town of Callington, Cornwall, built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway, but operated by the London and…