Castallack

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cornwall, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image = Castallack - geograph.org.uk - 175480.jpg

| static_image_caption = Castallack

| coordinates = {{coord|50.072|-5.563|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Castallack

| cornish_name =

| population =

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|civil_parish = St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul

| unitary_england= Cornwall

| lieutenancy_england = Cornwall

| metropolitan_borough =

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| region = South West England

| constituency_westminster = St Ives

| post_town = PENZANCE

| postcode_district = TR19

| postcode_area = TR

| dial_code = 01736

| os_grid_reference = SW451253

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Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna.{{cite map| title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly| ISBN=978-0-319-23289-7| date =2009| publisher=Ordnance Survey}}

Castallack lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

Castallack Roundago ({{gbmapping|SW44822540}}) is a good example of a Romano-British round despite it having been partly destroyed in the 19th century.{{cite journal|author1=Anon|title=Castallack Roundago|editor1-last=Kirkham|editor1-first=Graham|editor2-last=Herring|editor2-first=Peter|journal=Cornish Archaeology |date=2006|volume=41–42|issue=2002–3|pages=186|publisher=Cornwall Archaeological Society|issn=0070-024X}}

Granite from the Castallack quarries was used mainly for gravestones, activity finished in the mid-1980s.{{cite journal |last1=Bristow |first1=Colin |title=The Geology Of The Building And Decorative Stones Of Cornwall. Supplementary Publications. Granite and Elvans. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263005948 |journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications |accessdate=30 August 2019 |doi=10.1144/SP391.6 |date=2014|s2cid=130306985 }}