CALSTOCK, a parish in the middle division of the
hundred of EAST, county of CORNWALL, 5 miles (E.)
from Callington, containing 2388 inhabitants. The living
is a-rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £26. 7- «., and
in the patronage of the King, as Duke of Cornwall.
The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, ,is a neat building,
with a high tower ornamented with lofty pinnacles.
There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. The
parsonage-house was built about the year 1710, by
Launcelot Blackburn, then rector of this parish and
Bishop of Exeter, who was afterwards Archbishop of
York. Here are copper and tin mines; and a lead
mine, -the ore of which is intermixed with silver, has
been recently opened. The Tamar canal passes through
the parish, and there is a ferry over the navigable river
Tamar, which forms its eastern and southern boundary,
and separates it from Beer-Alston, in the county of
Devon. The tide flows to about the centre of the parish,
where there is a weir, and a very productive salmon
fishery.