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Are you interested in the local history? Creating your family tree? Do you want to know the history surrounding your house or land? Perhaps you have a potentially interesting historical features in your garden? We can help with your research. 

We offer a personal Research Service on any aspects of parish history, charged at £12 per hour (inclusive of VAT). Please contact us or call at the Archive to learn more.

What can be found at the Archive?

Written records form the main part of the archive. Although not a comprehensive list, information is held on the following:​

People

Family trees and histories
Calstock Parish Births, Marriages and Deaths records
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 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

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

Agriculture and Industry

​Farming from medieval times onwards
Forestry
Market gardening/horticulture
Chip basket factory
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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

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 

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 sites and buildings

Maps and Plans

Copies of complete series of:
1st Edition O.S. maps (scale 25”:1 mile - 1880's), 
2nd Edition O.S. maps, with the exception of Latchley, (scale 25”: 1mile - 1906/7)
4th Edition O.S. maps (scale 25": 1 Mile - 1950's)
2nd Edition O.S. maps (scale 6": 1 mile - 1907) with the exception of Latchley.
4th Edition O.S. maps (6": 1 mile - 1950's)
1731 Cotehele Estate map
1786 Gardner map
1815 Davis Map
1840 Manor map
Various other copies of Tithe, Manorial and land holding maps and plans

Manor Records

General structure of the Duchy Manor 
Accession rolls 1335-1400, 1560-1833 + Caption of Seisin
Court rolls 1365-1709
Courts Baron 1800-1865
Register of the Black Prince Extracts
Chancery Records
Ministers Accounts from 13th century
Leases

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

Reference Books

Agriculture
Archaeology
Architecture
Brickmaking
Cotehele
General history
Geology
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)​

Photographic Records

Most of the collection comprises digital images, though we do have a few original photographs, slides and prints of the digital images. ​We are in the process of photographing the parish and have taken around 7,000 photographs. Our photos cover a variety of subjects:
  • 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 and village life
  • Family photographs

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 modern 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 ​
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