Stoke Climsland is a village in the valley of the

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, England, United Kingdom within the civil parish of Stokeclimsland. The population of the parish including Luckett at the 2011 census was 1,703. An electoral ward of the same name also exists. At the same census the population was 3,703.

History

The manor of Climsland was one of the seventeen

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of the

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. The manor was recorded in the

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of 1086 as Climson; there were 5

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s of land and land for 24 ploughs. One hide was held by the lord (with 3 ploughs and 9 serfs) and 30 villeins and 30 smallholders had 17 ploughs and 4 hides of land. There were also 3 acres of meadow, 16 square leagues of pasture and 3 square leagues of woodland. The income from the manor was £6 sterling. In the 12th century, Climsland became part of a royal deer park called Kerrybullock, or Carrybullock, until it was disparked by

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in the 16th century. The park was mentioned in 1282 and its extent was 600 acres. In 1337 the park was recorded as being three leagues around and as having 150 deer. In 1352

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sent 6 of the oaks to Stoke for the building of the church there and in 1357 ordered that herds of deer be sent to his other parks at Launceston and Trematon to restock them. In the park was a lodge, still called Lodge House in 1677. Along with other ducal parks Carrybullock was disparked c. 1540 by King Henry VIII; for the next four and a half centuries it became pasture for cattle (today's Duchy Farm). N.B. Another Duchy Farm exists on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.

Notable buildings

The present church building is 15th century, with north and south aisles and a west tower. The tower is of granite and the wagon roofs are medieval. At Horse Bridge on the road to Tavistock is a fine bridge of seven arches (built in 1437). At Whiteford Sir

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built a Georgian mansion in 1775 but it no longer exists: the stables and a garden temple remain and a few fragments have been reused in a house nearby. The post office, opened in 1839, is the oldest sub-Post Office in the UK. Horse Bridge is a listed medieval bridge across the River Tamar opposite Horsebridge in the parish of

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in Devon.

Sport

The village had a football team called Stoke Climsland who were champions of Duchy League 2 2017/18 Cornwall Duchy league. , however the team has now disbanded.

Cornish wrestling

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tournaments, for prizes, were held in Stoke Climsland in the 1800s.The Western Morning News, 20 June 2014.

Notable people

William Pratt Call Sir William Pratt Call, 2nd Baronet (28 September 1781 – 3 December 1851) is best known for holding the office of High Sheriff of Cornwall between 1807 and 1808, and for being a partner in a London banking house. He was the fifth child and se ...

, banker and

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; resident of Whiteford House *

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, an early settler in Delaware *

Len Harvey Leonard Austen Harvey (11 July 1907 – 28 November 1976) was a British boxer. A great defensive boxer, he boxed at every weight division available at the time, from flyweight to heavyweight. He became the light-heavyweight and heavyweight c ...

, a boxer, who held one 'version' of the World's

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Championship from 1939 until 1942; born here *

Charlotte Mary Matheson Charlotte Mary Matheson (died 8 April 1937 in Cornwall, England) was a Cornish novelist. She wrote ''The Generation Between'' (1915), ''Children of the Desolate'' (1916), ''Morwenna of the Green Gown'' (1923), ''Nut in the Husk'' (1926), and ' ...

, novelist; herdsman * David Oates, archaeologist and academic; born here *

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, football manager; resident

References

External links

Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Stoke Climsland
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