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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gunnislake like this:
GUNNISLAKE, a village on the W border of Devon; 4 miles S of Tavistock. It has a post office under Tavistock; and is chiefly inhabited by miners. The tin mine of Drakewalls, where wolfram is separated from tin ore, and where a lode lies open to the day, is above the village.
Gunnislake is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gunnislake itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gunnislake in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20298
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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