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50°04′19″N5°33′47″W / 50.072°N 5.563°W / 50.072; -5.563

Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna. [1]

Castallack lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

Castallack Roundago (grid reference SW44822540 ) is a good example of a Romano-British round despite it having been partly destroyed in the 19th century. [2]

Granite from the Castallack quarries was used mainly for gravestones, activity finished in the mid-1980s. [3]

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References

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