Liskeard
Liskeard is a very old market town
and administrative centre, situated in the valley of the River Looe in
south east Cornwall. With a railway station on the London to Penzance
Great Western Main Line and good road communications, Liskeard is also
within easy reach of the south Cornish coastal resorts, with Bodmin Moor
to the north. Liskeard owed its early prosperity to the tin mining boom
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming a stannary town, an
administrative centre for the tin industry but, like other Cornish towns
once dependent on the mining of tin, it has since declined with the
declining importance of tin. A
spring in well lane was reputed, in medieval times, to have had healing
powers. Notable buildings include Webb's Hotel, the town hall and the
church of St Martin. Click
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