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We offer a Research Service on any aspects of parish history.
To benefit from our research service at a cost of £10 per hour please contact us or come up to the centre to find out more.
What you Can Find At the Archive?
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS
Most of the collection comprises digital images, though we do have a few original photographs and slides and some of the digital images have been printed.
Subjects covered:
Mines and mining
Market gardening and farming
Railways
Calstock Viaduct
Carnivals, pantomimes and festivals
Church and chapel
Brickworks
School photographs dating back to 1900
Postcards
General views of the Parish
Family photographs
Village life
We are in the process of photographing the parish and have to date taken around 7,000 photographs
WRITTEN RECORDS
Written records form the main part of the archive. Although not a comprehensive list, information is held on the following:
AGRICULTURE
Farming from medieval times onwards
Forestry
Market gardening/horticulture
Chip basket factory
INDUSTRY
Brickworks from 19th century onwards
Canals and Leats 18th and 19th century
Fisheries
Mills
Limekilns from 17th century
Quarries from 19th century
Quays from 17th century
Shipping
MANOR RECORDS
General structure of the Duchy Manor
Assession rolls 1335-1400
Assession rolls 1560-1833 + Caption of Seisin
Court rolls 1365-1709
Courts Baron 1800-1865
Extracts from the registers of the Black Prince
Chancery Records
Ministers Accounts from 13th century
Leases
MINING
General information, mining technology, legal matters
Mine plans
References to pre 18th century mines
Bere Peninsula silver mine records
Reports on mines in the area by Colin Buck, County Archaeologist
Including:
Gunnislake Clitters
Danescombe Valley
Drakewalls
Okel Tor
Prince of Wales
Wheal Brothers
Devon Great Consols
Hingston Down
Bedford United
Calstock Ore Yard
Coombe Arsenic Chimney
Gawton
Morwellham
Newquay
Wheal Russell 2006
PEOPLE
Family trees
Calstock Parish Records births, marriages and deaths
Albaston cemetery records
Non conformist records for the Callington Bible Christian Circuit, 1863 – 1900.
for the Calstock Wesleyan baptisms from 1846-1895.
And for Gunnislake-Tavistock Wesleyan Circuit from 1843-1922
Epitaphs from the gravestones at Calstock church yard
Census Records 1841 – 1901
Bal Maidens
Family histories
Family papers
Wills from 1600 – 1900
Muster Rolls and various early tax records
Electoral lists late 18th – early 19th century
Postal directories
Calstock church seating plan late 16th century
PLACES
Calstock Parish
Gunnislake
Dimson
Calstock
Harrowbarrow
Metherell
St Ann’s Chapel
Drakewalls
Chilsworthy
Latchley
Cox Park
Cotehele
Harewood
1815 Davis map and survey
1839 Tithe map and survey (family landholding information and field names)
archaeological surveys of older sites and buildings
RAILWAY
Callington – Bere Alston branch line from 1908
Calstock Incline 1859 onwards
East Cornwall Mineral Railway 1870s onwards
Building of Calstock Viaduct including some arbitration papers, estimates and Conditions of Contract
SOCIAL COMMUNITY
Court cases
Transcripts of Chancery Assize and Star Chamber 14th – 17th century
Manorial court cases (not criminal)
Education
Latchley School log book
History of Calstock and Harrowbarrow schools
Modern newspaper cuttings
Health
Inns
Religion
Glebe Terriers
Non conformist leases
Protestation returns
Newspaper extracts
Some transcriptions from late 1700’s – late 19th century
Cuttings of the 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000 onwards
Calstock Newsletter
Hamlet newsletter
Gunnislake Village Voice newsletter
Assorted Minutes of clubs, village halls, flower shows, etc
Women’s Institute scrapbooks
Tavistock Workhouse records relating to parish people
List of balmaidens in the parish taken from census records
Transcripts of some of the Harewood diaries written by the Trelawney girls
ORAL RECORDS
There are 150 audio tapes of interviews with older local people made in the mid 1980’s and we are recording more interviews at the present time. The quality of the tapes is very poor, but most of them have now been transcribed along with some of the modrern ones. These cover a variety of topics including:
. Occupations – mining, quarrying, railway
. Church and Chapel
. Wartime memories
. Market Gardening
. Outings and festivals
. Family life
. Family history
. The river
. Entertainment
. School
MAPS AND PLANS
A complete series of copies of the 1st Edition O.S. maps (scale 25”:1 mile - 1880's),
A complete series of copies of 2nd Edition O.S. maps, with the exception of Latchley, (scale 25”: 1mile - 1906/7)
A complete series of copies of 4th Edition O.S. maps (scale 25": 1 Mile - 1950's)
A complete series of copies of 2nd Edition O.S. maps (scale 6": 1 mile - 1907) with the exception of Latchley.
A complete series of copies of 4th Edition O.S. maps (6": 1 mile - 1950's)
1731 Cotehele Estate map
1786 Gardner map
1815 Davis Map
1840 Manor map
Various copies of Tithe, Manorial and land holding maps, plans and an incomplete selection of mine maps and sections, approximately 60 in number
REFERENCE BOOKS
Agriculture
Archaeology
Architecture
Brickmaking
Cotehele
General history
Geology
Kerrybullock
Kit Hill
Limekilns
Local villages
Local Plans and reports
Market gardening
Mining
Quarrying
Railways
Religion
Rivers and shipping
Steam Power
School history
Tamar Valley
Trades and Industries
Complete set of Tamar (magazine of Friends of Morwellham)
Complete set of Tamar History (newsletter of Calstock Parish Local History Group)
