Qualla: Calstock https://qualla.com/calstock en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/calstock-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Calstock https://qualla.com/calstock Calstock: Introduction https://qualla.com/calstock/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Twelve arches stride across the River Tamar at Calstock, each one sixty feet wide, the whole viaduct rising 120 feet above the water at high tide. It was built between 1904 and 1907 from 11,148 concrete blocks cast in a temporary yard on the Devon bank. Today the structure still carries trains along the Tamar Valley Line, but more than that, it defines the village. Calstock huddles beneath it on the Cornish side of the river, a tangle of slate-roofed houses tumbling down to a quay where, two thousand years ago, Roman legionaries built the largest fort yet discovered in Cornwall, and where in May 2025 the passenger ferry returned after a decade of absence, this time entirely solar-powered.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/calstock-wp/gbvp-calstock-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Calstock: Romans on Church Hill https://qualla.com/calstock/ Photo credit Calstock Parish Heritage Project, CC BY 4.0. Between 2007 and 2011, archaeologists from the University of Exeter excavated around St Andrew's Church on Calstock's Church Hill and found something that genuinely surprised them. Beneath the medieval churchyard lay the remains of a Roman fort, established around 50 to 55 CE, co...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/calstock-wp/gbvp-calstock-romans-on-church-hill.mp3 0:06 2 full Calstock: Mining and the River https://qualla.com/calstock/ Photo credit Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0. Calstock's modern history is the history of metal. Medieval miners worked the area for silver under the Duchy of Cornwall, but the boom came in the nineteenth century, when copper and tin were found in commercial quantities. The mines around the village had wonderful names: Coteh...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/calstock-wp/gbvp-calstock-mining-and-the-river.mp3 0:06 3 full Calstock: The Viaduct, the Railway, the Ferry https://qualla.com/calstock/ Photo credit Afterbrunel, CC BY-SA 3.0. The East Cornwall Mineral Railway opened in 1872 to carry ore down to Calstock Quay, ending in a 0.4-mile cable-worked incline at a gradient of 1-in-6. Even by Victorian railway standards it was steep. When the LSWR's main line opened at Bere Alston in 1890, the local company bui...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/calstock-wp/gbvp-calstock-the-viaduct-the-railway-the-ferry.mp3 0:06 4 full Calstock: Charles I's Letter on the Wall https://qualla.com/calstock/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. St Andrew's Church, consecrated around 1290, holds a remarkable piece of Stuart history on its wall. During the English Civil War in 1644, Calstock and the surrounding Cornish parishes raised about 1,200 men for the Royalist cause, quartered at Cotehele and Harewood House under S...

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