Liskeard

Liskeard is ideally suited for tourists being central to Cornwall and most of Devon. Liskeard Town has been the centre of South East Cornwall for centuries with a long tradition as a market centre. Today there is still a busy cattle market in the centre of the town once a week.

While Liskeard retains many of its older buildings, pride of place is given to Stuart House (15th/16th Century) where King Charles I once stayed, and which is now a busy centre for arts and community activities. The town offers a variety of shops and restaurants and the Liskeard Heritage Trail finds places to explore.

Liskeard, unusual among Cornish towns, has excellent dual-carriageway road links via the A38 Trunk Road from Plymouth, the M5 and the rest of the UK. The A30 which runs right through Cornwall is close by.

The town also benefits from express rail links direct from London Paddington, the Midlands and the North and will soon benefit from European expresses direct to Plymouth. Local branch line trains run from Liskeard to Looe and the local buses are a pleasure to use.

Flying time from Plymouth Airport to London Gatwick, or Newquay to Gatwick or Stanstead is less than one hour with single journey prices as low as £19.00 Both airports serve most UK airports but Newquay Airport serves many European destinations too. Plymouth airport is within 30 minutes and Newquay 40 minutes driving time from Pencubitt.

The local area, South East Cornwall, is renowned for its beautiful scenery. The superb countryside and coastline of the area, along with its extensive coastal and natural heritage and wide range of recreational opportunities, provide the visitor with a landscape and community of unparalleled richness.

The local landscape is dominated by the granite mass of Bodmin Moor rising to over 1,000 feet above sea level to the north of Liskeard. From the southern edge of Bodmin Moor the land drops steadily towards the English Channel, some 12 miles away.

From the moors, rivers flowing south have carved deep valleys which now support fine woods. Between these valleys are high, open and rolling agricultural landscapes, which stop abruptly at a spectacular coastline of cliffs, bays and sandy beaches.

The coast is broken at intervals by the river valleys, which by now have become tidal and their estuarine mud flats are of considerable conservation importance.

The countryside is rich in items of nature conservation value and heritage interest, including rare flora and fauna and historical remains of great antiquity or more recent industry.

The local industry has mainly been fishing and mining. Fishing and mining in Cornwall and Devon has been taking place since the arrival of man. Once rich in Tin, Copper, Lead, Arsenic and other valuable minerals mining is now extinct. Fishing has also been drastically reduced over the past 20 years.

The area is a pleasant rolling landscape of arable and pasture lands, framed by the broad expanses of Bodmin Moor to the North, the Heritage Coast to the South, the beautiful Tamar Valley to the East and the amazing Fowey Valley to the west.

These features provide the district with a rich diversity in both human heritage and environmental terms. It is an undeniably superb environment which is a key factor in the area's attractiveness to visitors.

Looe

Bodmin Moor

Tamar Valley

Fowey Valley