Callington
in Cornwall of England, United Kingdom
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Plymouth City Airport (11 mi) - Newquay Cornwall Airport (30 mi)
- Exeter International Airport (43 mi)
- Land's End Airport (66 mi)
- MOD St. Athan (73 mi)
- Cardiff International Airport (75 mi)
- Swansea Airport (77 mi)
- Bristol International Airport (92 mi)
- Haverfordwest Airport (96 mi)
- Bournemouth Airport (110 mi)
- RAF Fairford (137 mi)
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (Unesco heritage, 29 mi)
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Unesco heritage, 107 mi)
- China Fleet Country Club (Golf course, 7 mi)
- Boringdon Park Golf Club (Golf course, 14 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 50.501 and -4.313 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 50° 30' 5" and W -4° 18' 47"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 04:30 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: Europe/London
- UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:33 am and 4:30 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -45.817 and 170.717 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Otakou - References
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Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to United Kingdom.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning United Kingdom. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Explore Callington
Callington in Cornwall (England) with it's 5,786 inhabitants is a city in United Kingdom about 195 mi (or 314 km) west of London, the country's capital.
Local time in Callington is now 04:30 PM (Friday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of zero hours. We know of 11 airports in the vicinity of Callington, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is Plymouth City Airport in a distance of 11 mi (or 17 km), South-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are two Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape in a distance of 29 mi (or 46 km), South-West. Also, if you like golfing, there are multiple options in driving distance. If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: South Hill, Pillaton, North Hill, Launceston and Werrington. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 11°C / 51 °F
| Morning Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 9°C / 49 °F |
| Night Temperature | 5°C / 42 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 77% |
| Air Pressure | 1027 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 3 km/h (2 mph) from South |
| Cloud Conditions | Few clouds, covering 15% of sky |
| General Conditions | Few clouds |
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
11°C (51 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
10°C (50 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
11°C (52 °F)
12°C (53 °F)
Moderate rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
TRAVELODGE SALTASH
Videos from this area
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Norway Road Trip 2014
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Graveyard Beauty- Plymouth Brethren Burial Ground. Callington, Cornwall, UK
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Cornish Dance Tunes - Callington Town Band
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Clowns At War Callington Community School - 13/11/2012
"our trip to Callington", Répétition de la pièce Clowns at War Déplacement du Lycée Ozanam Lille.
The slow death of the red telephone box
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Winter Rolling Stock Work on the Forest Railroad
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Cadson Manor
Enjoy a short wander around the grounds of Cadson Manor, a charming old manor house in South East Cornwall, with views of the ancient hill fort at Cadsonbury. http://www.cadsonmanor.co.uk/
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Kit Hill Country Park
Kit Hill, at 334 metres high, dominates the area between Callington and the River Tamar in southeast Cornwall, UK. The word 'Kit' comes from Old English for Kite, a reference to birds of prey (and not specifically the Red Kite). Buzzards and Sparrowhawks can still be seen on the hill. It is one of five Marilyn hills in Cornwall, the four others are Watch Croft, Brown Willy, Carnmenellis and Hensbarrow Beacon.
Dupath Well
Dupath Well is a nearly intact wellhouse, constructed of local granite, built over a spring. Built of Cornish granite ashlar, it has a steeply-pitched roof, built from courses of granite slabs that run the length of the building. There are badly weathered pinnacles at each corner and a small bell turret, with a highly elaborate canopy, over the entrance. Next to the well house is a medieval, circular trough that collects the spring water.
East Cornwall Mineral Railway
The East Cornwall Mineral Railway was a 42 narrow gauge industrial railway opened in 1872 to serve the iron ore and stone quarries around Callington in Cornwall. The line was 7½ miles long running from Kelly Bray to Calstock, where an rope-worked incline ran down to the quay on the River Tamar. There were several branches serving copper, tin and arsenic mines and quarries. An Act of Parliament in 1883 authorised the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway to take over the line.
Callington railway station
Callington railway station was a railway station in the village of Kelly Bray one mile north of the centre of the small town of Callington, Cornwall, built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway, but operated by the London and South Western Railway. It was the terminus of a branch line from Bere Alston, and the station closed in 1966. The Tamar Valley Line still operates services from Bere Alston with services terminating 5 miles to the east at Gunnislake railway station.
St Mellion
St Mellion is a village and rural civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is three miles (5 km) south of Callington and is in the St Germans Registration District. The population in the 2001 census was 377. To the north, the parish is bordered by Callington and St Dominick parishes, to the east and south by Pillaton parish, and to the west by St Ive parish. The parish name is taken from St Melaine, a 6th century bishop of Rennes, Brittany.
St. Mellion International Resort
The St. Mellion International Resort is a golf centred hotel and recreation complex near Saltash, Cornwall in the South West of England. The resort comprises a hotel, conference facilities, health club, spa and two championship golf courses. The St. Mellion resort is owned and operated by Crown Golf, who acquired it as part of their purchase of American Golf (UK) from American Golf Corporation in 2004. American Golf had themselves purchased the resort in 1998.
Luckett, Cornwall
Luckett is a hamlet in east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in a former mining area beside the River Tamar approximately three miles (5 km) north of Callington. South of the hamlet is Greenscoombe Wood, Luckett SSSI, noted for its biological interest.
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