Description
Stoke Climsland, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 3 miles N of Callington, and 7 1/2 from Launceston station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Callington; money order and telegraph office, Callington. Acreage of parish, 8856; population, 1865. There is a parish council of eleven members. The manor belonged formerly to Tavistock and Launceston abbeys, and belongs now to the Duchy of Cornwall. Whiteford House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £900 with residence. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The East Cornwall Minerals railway has three stations in this parish, viz., Monks Comer, Downgate, and Kelly Bray. A cattle fair is held on the 29th of May.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
