Dobwalls and Trewidland is a civil parish in south-east Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, United Kingdom

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The parish is bounded to the north by St Neot and St Cleer

St Cleer

St Cleer is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the southeast flank of Bodmin Moor approximately two miles north of Liskeard....

 parishes, to the east by Liskeard

Liskeard

Liskeard is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Liskeard is situated approximately 20 miles west of Plymouth, west of the River Tamar and the border with Devon, and 12 miles east of Bodmin...

 and Menheniot

Menheniot

Menheniot is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated 2½ miles southeast of Liskeard. The meaning of the name is "sanctuary of Neot" ....

 parishes, to the south by Morval

Morval, Cornwall

Morval is a rural civil parish and hamlet in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is approximately two miles north of Looe and five miles south of Liskeard....

 parish, to the west by the East Looe River

River Looe

The River Looe is a river in south-east Cornwall, which flows into the English Channel at Looe. It has two main branches, the East Looe River and the West Looe River....

 and the parishes of St Pinnock

St Pinnock

St Pinnock is a hamlet and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is in the Liskeard Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 621....

 and St Keyne

St Keyne

St Keyne is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies between the parishes of Liskeard and Duloe.In Victorian times the holywell in St Keyne had the reputation of conferring supremacy to the marriage partner who first tasted it.The church is dedicated to Saint Keyne...

, and to the south-west by Duloe

Duloe, Cornwall

Duloe is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles south of Liskeard at .-Parish church:...

 parish.

The two largest villages in the parish are Dobwalls

Dobwalls

Dobwalls is a village in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles west of Liskeard.The name is spelt Dubwalls on Bartholomew's map and Black's Guide of 1879....

 50.457°N 4.515°W and Doublebois

Doublebois

Doublebois is a village in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Dobwalls and Trewidland apprimately three miles west of Liskeard....

 50.456°N 4.538°W, both in the north of the parish. There are several smaller villages in the south of the parish including Trewidland

Trewidland

Trewidland is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It is about two miles northeast of Duloe....

 and Horningtops, and the hamlet of Boduel

Boduel

Boduel is a hamlet in east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is situated west of Moorswater, one mile west of Liskeard in the civil parish of Dobwalls and Trewidland.-History:...

 to the north.

The ancient village of Dobwalls was originally in Liskeard parish until the separate civil parish of Dobwalls and Trewidland was created. The population of Dobwalls and Trewidland parish in the 2001 census was 1,939.

Rosenun Lane, 1 km north of St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station, is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest

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 noted for its geological

Geology of Cornwall

The Geology of Cornwall is dominated by its granite backbone, part of the Cornubian batholith, formed during the Variscan orogeny. Around this is an extensive metamorphic aureole formed in the mainly Devonian slates that make up most of the rest of the county...

 interest.

Ward changes

In 2002, the Electoral Commission ordered a re-organisation of wards in Caradon

Caradon

Caradon was a local government district in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It contained five towns: Callington, Liskeard, Looe, Saltash and Torpoint, and over 80 villages and hamlets within 41 civil parishes...

. The former wards were abolished and the district was divided into twenty-two new wards; and the parish of Liskeard was divided into two parish wards, Liskeard North and Liskeard South

The change created 'Dobwalls and District' as a ward electing two councillors and incorporating the parishes of Dobwalls and Trewidland, Morval, St Keyne and St Pinnock.