The main town of the western moor, TAVISTOCK owes its distinctive Victorian appearance to the building boom that followed the discovery of copper deposits here in 1844. Originally, however, this market and Stannary town on the River Tavy grew around what was once the West Country's most important Benedictine abbey, established in the eleventh century. Some scanty remnants survive in the churchyard of St Eustace , a mainly fifteenth-century building with stain... [More]