Camelford Rural District was a local government division of north Cornwall

Cornwall

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 between 1894 and 1974. The district council offices were at Camelford

Camelford

Camelford is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council....

, Cornwall, England

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, UK

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, latterly in the former grammar school. It was one of several rural district

Rural district

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s in Cornwall which carried out some local government functions while those for Cornwall as a whole were the responsibility of the Cornwall County Council

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.

Parishes

The following civil parish

Civil parish

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es were within the district:

• Camelford
  Camelford
  Camelford is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council....
  
   (Lanteglos by Camelford; Advent)
• Davidstow
  Davidstow
  Davidstow is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is north of Bodmin Moor straddling the A395 road about 3 miles north of Camelford....
  
  
• Forrabury and Minster
  Forrabury and Minster
  Forrabury and Minster is a civil parish on the north coast of Cornwall. The parish was originally divided between the coastal parish of Forrabury and inland parish of Minster until they were united in 1779....
  
   (Forrabury; Minster)
• Lesnewth
  Lesnewth
  Lesnewth is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately six miles east of Tintagel Head and two miles east of Boscastle....
  
  
• Michaelstow
  Michaelstow
  Michaelstow is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles south of Camelford.The civil parish of Michaelstow is in the deanery of Trigg Minor and Hundred of Lesnewth. It...
  
  
• Otterham
  Otterham
  Otterham is a village and a civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately ten miles south of Bude and six miles north of Camelford....
  
  
• St Breward
  St Breward
  St Breward is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the western side of Bodmin Moor approximately 6 miles north of Bodmin.The parish name derives from Saint Branwalader...
  
  
• St Clether
  St Clether
  St Clether is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the east flank of Bodmin Moor approximately eight miles west of Launceston in the valley of the River Inny....
  
  
• St Juliot
  St Juliot
  St Juliot is a civil parish in north-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is entirely rural and the only settlements are the hamlets of Beeny and Tresparrett.-Parish Church:...
  
  
• St Teath
  St Teath
  St Teath is civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles southwest of Camelford and seven miles northeast of Wadebridge. The hamlet of Whitewell lies to the west....
  
   (St Teath; Delabole)
• Tintagel
  Tintagel
  Tintagel is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The population of the parish is 1,820 people, and the area of the parish is ....
  
  
• Trevalga
  Trevalga
  Trevalga is a coastal civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south-east by Forrabury and Minster parish and on the west by Tintagel parish....
  
  

Sources

• Camelford Rural District in Vision of Britain (based on F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society; p. 63)