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 CHIEF TOWNS AND VILLAGES 149 usual feature in Devon and Cornwall of having a clerestory. The L. & S.W.R. has constructed a light railway from Beer Alston to Callington and Calstock. (pp. 105, 124.) Calstock (5874) is a large village and township. The church is at a distance from the village or town. Gunnislake, two miles north of Calstock, is in the parish. Both places have declined in numbers and prosperity through the abandonment of the mines in the neighbourhood, (pp. 15, 69, 72, 87, 101.) Camborne (14,726), a market town with a station on the main line of the G.W.R. It is a great seat of mining operations, (pp. 38, 81, 101, 135, 137.) Camelford (1384), a small market and union town, in a bleak and wind-swept situation, consisting of one street. It is the head of a county court district and magisterial division. It is in the parish of Lanteglos, nearly two miles distant, and has not in it even a chapel of ease. Camelford was an ancient borough with mayor and corporation, (pp. 14, 105, 133, 135, 137.) Falmouth (3207), a seaport, market, and union towi. and a municipal borough. It is the head of a county court district. Falmouth was incorporated by charter 1661. It has the ad- vantage of possessing one of the finest and most capacious harbours in the country. As many as 350 to 400 sail have taken refuge here in winter at various times. There are docks, factories, and building yards. Of late an attempt has been made to turn Falmouth into a winter resort for invalids, and the coast is advertised as "The Cornisli Riviera," but it is a Riviera without the sun of the Mediterranean, (pp. 30, 31, 48, 66, 88, 92, 94, 95, 96, 132, 135, 137, 139.) Fowey (2258), once a borough, is a market town and a shipping port with a station on a branch of the G.W.R. The church of St Finbar is a noble edifice in the Perpendicular style but with portions on the north dating from 1336. Place House, the seat of the Treffry family, is a beautiful, richly-sculptured