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Moorswater is an
industrial suburb An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban ...
of
Liskeard Liskeard ( ; ) is an ancient stannary and market town in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, west of the Devon border, and 12 miles (20 km) east of Bodmin. Th ...
in
Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately half-a-mile (0.8 km) west of Liskeard town centre.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' Moorswater has a long industrial history and lies south of the former
mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...
area around
Kit Hill Kit Hill (), at 334 metres high, dominates the area between Callington and the River Tamar in southeast Cornwall, England, UK. The word 'Kit' comes from Old English for kite, a reference to birds of prey (and not specifically the red kite). ...
and
Caradon Hill Caradon Hill () is on Bodmin Moor in the former Caradon district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The summit is above mean sea level. Caradon Hill is on the southeastern edge of the moor; it is between the villages of Minions (northwest), ...
at the southeast edge of
Bodmin Moor Bodmin Moor () is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in size, and dates from the Carboniferous period of geology, geological history. It includes Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall, and Rough To ...
. Moorswater was at the southern end of one of Cornwall's early railways, the
Liskeard and Caradon Railway The Liskeard and Caradon Railway () was a mineral railway in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1844. It was built to carry the ores of copper and tin, and also granite, from their sources on Caradon Hill down to Moorswater for on ...
mineral line which opened in 1844. Moorswater lies in a valley which is spanned by Moorswater viaduct carrying the
Cornish Main Line The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth, crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash. It directly serves Truro, St Austell, Bodmin (by ...
railway. The single-track
Looe Valley Line The Looe Valley Line is an community railway from Liskeard railway station, Liskeard to Looe railway station, Looe in Cornwall, England, that follows the valley of the River Looe, East Looe River for much of its course. It is operated by Great ...
branches from the main line at
Liskeard railway station Liskeard railway station () serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall, England. The station is approximately west of on the Cornish Main Line and from via Box and Plymouth Millbay. It is the junction (rail), junction for the Looe Valley Line. ...
and descends into the valley allowing freights trains to access Moorswater Industrial Estate on the site of the former
Moorswater railway station Moorswater railway station () was the centre of operations for the Liskeard and Caradon Railway and the Liskeard and Looe Railway. The two railways made an end on junction here. It was the site of the lines' Motive power depot, engine shed, al ...
, once the centre of operations for the
Liskeard and Caradon Railway The Liskeard and Caradon Railway () was a mineral railway in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1844. It was built to carry the ores of copper and tin, and also granite, from their sources on Caradon Hill down to Moorswater for on ...
. The former
china clay Kaolinite ( ; also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition aluminium, Al2Silicon, Si2Oxygen, O5(hydroxide, OH)4. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedron, tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen ...
works at Moorswater is now a rail-served cement terminal.


See also

* Moorswater viaduct *
Liskeard and Caradon Railway The Liskeard and Caradon Railway () was a mineral railway in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1844. It was built to carry the ores of copper and tin, and also granite, from their sources on Caradon Hill down to Moorswater for on ...
*
Moorswater railway station Moorswater railway station () was the centre of operations for the Liskeard and Caradon Railway and the Liskeard and Looe Railway. The two railways made an end on junction here. It was the site of the lines' Motive power depot, engine shed, al ...
*
Liskeard and Caradon Railway The Liskeard and Caradon Railway () was a mineral railway in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1844. It was built to carry the ores of copper and tin, and also granite, from their sources on Caradon Hill down to Moorswater for on ...
*
Liskeard railway station Liskeard railway station () serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall, England. The station is approximately west of on the Cornish Main Line and from via Box and Plymouth Millbay. It is the junction (rail), junction for the Looe Valley Line. ...


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