Callington
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Callington () is a town and civil parish in east Cornwall, England. It lies about north of Saltash and south of Launceston. The parish had a population of 5,983 in 2021.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.map_type
- Cornwall
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.official_name
- Callington
- UK place.cornish_name
- Kelliwik
- UK place.static_image_name
- Callington 1.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Fore Street, Callington's main street
- UK place.population
- 5,983
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Callington
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cornwall
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South East Cornwall
- UK place.post_town
- Callington
- UK place.postcode_district
- PL17
- UK place.postcode_area
- PL
- UK place.dial_code
- 01579
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SX359696
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cornwall
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
- History
- Railway station
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Economy
- Media
- Sport
- Cornish wrestling
- Twinning
- Notable people
- Freemasonry
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- References
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Callington () is a town and civil parish in east Cornwall, England. It lies about north of Saltash and south of Launceston. The parish had a population of 5,983 in 2021.
==Geography== The town is situated in east Cornwall between Dartmoor to the east and Bodmin Moor to the west. A former agricultural market town, it lies at the intersection of the south–north A388 Saltash to Launceston road and the east–west A390 Tavistock to Liskeard road.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Callington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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