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OS grid reference
  
SX360744

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Local time
  
Tuesday 11:36 AM

Civil parish
  
Stokeclimsland

Country
  
Postcode district
  
PL17

Dialling code
  
01579

Post town
  
Callington, Cornwall

Stoke Climsland

Weather
  
12°C, Wind S at 23 km/h, 84% Humidity

Stoke Climsland is a village in the valley of the River Tamar, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom within the civil parish of Stokeclimsland. The population of the parish including Luckett at the 2011 census was 1,703. An electoral ward in the same name also exists. At the same census the population was 3,703.

Contents

Map of Stoke Climsland, Callington, UK

History

The manor of Climsland was one of the seventeen Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall. The manor was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as Climson; there were 5 hides of land and land for 24 ploughs. One hide was held by the lord (with 3 ploughs and 9 serfs) and 30 villeins and 30 smallholders had 17 ploughs and 4 hides of land. There were also 3 acres of meadow, 16 square leagues of pasture and 3 square leagues of woodland. The income from the manor was £6 sterling.

In the 12th century, Climsland became part of a 250 hectares (620 acres) Royal Deer Park called Kerrybullock, until it was disparked by Henry VIII in the 16th century.

Notable buildings

The present church building is 15th century, with north and south aisles and a west tower. The tower is of granite and the wagon roofs are medieval. At Horse Bridge on the road to Tavistock is a fine bridge of seven arches (built in 1437). At Whiteford Sir John Call built a Georgian mansion in 1775 but it no longer exists: the stables and a garden temple remain and a few fragments have been reused in a house nearby.

The post office, opened in 1839, is the oldest in the UK.

Sport

The village is also home to a football team, Stoke Climsland FC, which plays in the Cornwall Duchy league.

Notable people

  • William Pratt Call, banker and High Sheriff of Cornwall; resident of Whiteford House
  • John Grubb, an early settler in Delaware
  • Len Harvey, a boxer, who held one 'version' of the World's Light-Heavyweight Championship from 1939 until 1942; born here
  • David Oates, archaeologist and academic; born here
  • Neil Warnock, football manager; resident
  • References

    Stoke Climsland Wikipedia


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