Dobwalls Explained

Official Name:Dobwalls
Cornish Name:Fos an Mogh
Static Image Name:Dobwalls OS Map 1945 Popular Edition.jpg
Static Image Width:240px
Static Image Caption:Dobwalls and district from the 1940s Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One Inch to the Mile map.
Country:England
Map Type:Cornwall
Coordinates:50.4577°N -4.5158°W
Region:South West England
Shire County:Cornwall
Civil Parish:Dobwalls
Population:3,662
Population Ref:(2001 UK census)
Post Town:LISKEARD
Postcode Area:PL
Postcode District:PL14
Dial Code:01579
Constituency Westminster:South East Cornwall
Os Grid Reference:SX215650

Dobwalls (Cornish: Fos an Mogh) is a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated 3 mi (5 km) west of Liskeard.[1]

The name is spelt Dubwalls on Bartholomew's map and Black's Guide of 1879.

The A38 trunk road ran through the village until the bypass was opened on 19 December 2008.[2] [3] The bypass has two of the most elaborate bat bridges built so far in the UK (previous examples in Wales being wooden posts with cables).[4] Twelve native species of bats are found in the area.[5]

Until 2006, the Dobwalls Adventure Park tourist attraction was located north of the village.

Civil parish

At the 2011 census the population of the village was included in the civil parish of Dobwalls and Trewidland.

In 2020 Cornwall Council announced that from 1 April 2021 the part of Dobwalls and Trewidland parish surrounding the village of Trewidland would be moved to the parish of St Keyne, to form the new parish of St Keyne and Trewidland, with the remaining parish known as Dobwalls.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston
  2. Web site: Bottleneck bypassed 40 years on. BBC News website. BBC. 2008-12-19 . 19 December 2008.
  3. Web site: Highways Agency - A38 Dobwalls Bypass . 2007-10-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071018020620/http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/projects/3454.aspx . 2007-10-18 . Highways Agency website. Retrieved April 2010
  4. Web site: New Bat bridge for bypass : Marishal Thompson Group - Tree Subsidence, Arboriculture, Ecology and Landscape Architecture throughout the UK . Marishalthompson.co.uk . 2009-09-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091107135016/http://marishalthompson.co.uk/news/new-bat-bridge-for-bypass/ . 2009-11-07 .
  5. Web site: House of Lords Written Answers 10 November 2009: Bats . https://web.archive.org/web/20100424100843/http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/ByDate/20091110/writtenanswers/part002.html . dead . 24 April 2010 . United Kingdom Parliament . 5 June 2011 .
  6. Web site: The Cornwall No 1. Order 2020. 8 December 2020. Cornwall Council. 20 June 2021. 24 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624200852/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/Resources/Local%20Government%20Orders/South%20West/Cornwall/Reorganisation%20of%20Community%20Governance%20No%201%20Order%202020.pdf. dead.