What is Camelford?
[[File:Camelford Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1754992.jpg|thumb|The town hall]] '''Camelford''' is a small town in north [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom]], in the [[River Camel]] valley northwest of [[Bodmin Moor]]. The town is about ten miles (16&nbsp;km) north of [[Bodmin]]<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|9780319229385}}</ref> and is governed by a town council.<ref>[http://cwic.cornwall.gov.uk/cwic-sql/pc_lst.asp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410064535/http://cwic.cornwall.gov.uk/cwic-sql/pc_lst.asp |date=2010-04-10 }} Cornwall Council website. Retrieved May 2010</ref> '''Lanteglos-by-Camelford''' is the ecclesiastical parish which includes the town. The [[A39 road]] goes through the town centre. Camelford railway station on the line to [[Padstow]] was some distance from the town and closed in 1966. In July 1988, the water supply to the town and the surrounding area was contaminated when 20 tons of aluminium sulphate was poured into the wrong tank at the nearby Lowermoor Water Treatment Works on Bodmin Moor. An independent inquiry into the incident (the worst of its kind in British history) was started in 2002, and a draft report issued in January 2005, but there is still concern about long-term effects on the health of local people. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Towns in Cornwall]] [[Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall]]