liskeard articles

Liskeard is considered to be an ancient stannary. A stannary used to be the term for defining the area in which people used to have industrial preoccupations, especially in the tin industry. Hence, Liskeard was a specific area in which tin was processed in order to serve for the diverse uses that it had for the specific industry. Besides this ancient function of the town we may also consider another function that was given to it, that of a market town. In fact, this last characteristic is actualized and Liskeard is still considered as a market town today.