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{{Short description|Former local government district of Cornwall}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox historic subdivision| 
 |Name=                Caradon District
 |HQ=                  [[Liskeard]]
 |Status=              District
 |Origin=              *Borough of [[Liskeard]]<br> *Borough of [[Saltash]]<br> *[[Looe]] Urban District<br> *[[Torpoint]] Urban District<br> *[[Liskeard Rural District]]<br> *[[St Germans Rural District]]
 |Start=               1 April 1974
 |End=                 1 April 2009
 |Replace=             [[Cornwall]] unitary authority
 |Map=                 [[File:CornwallCaradon.png]]
 |Image=               
 |Arms=                [[File:Caradon District Council logo.png|200px]]
 |Motto=               
 |Government=          District council
 |Divisions=           [[Civil parish]]es
 |DivisionsMap=        
 |CodeName=            ONS code
 |Code=                15UB
 |PopulationFirst=     58,520<ref>{{cite book |title=Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System |year=1974 |publisher=[[HMSO]] |location=London |isbn=0-11-750847-0 |page=38 }}</ref> 
 |PopulationFirstYear= 1973 
 |PopulationLast=      79,647<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/caradon.asp|title=Census 2001: Caradon|date=1 April 2001|work=[[United Kingdom Census 2001|Census 2001]]|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=5 January 2009}}</ref> 
 |PopulationLastYear=  2001  
 }}
'''Caradon''' was a [[Non-metropolitan district|local government district]] in [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom.  It contained five towns: [[Callington]], [[Liskeard]], [[Looe]], [[Saltash]] and [[Torpoint]], and over 80 villages and hamlets within 41 civil parishes. Its District Council was based in Liskeard  {{coord|50.453|-4.465|display=inline,title}}.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], by the merger of the boroughs of Liskeard and Saltash with the [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|urban district]]s of Looe and Torpoint, along with [[Liskeard Rural District]] and [[St Germans Rural District]].

[[File:Old cemetery sign.jpg|thumb|An old sign showing a cemetery in Liskeard, Cornwall as being owned by Caradon District Council.]]

The district was named after [[Caradon Hill]], the principal landmark of the area, and formerly the site of important copper mines. The district was abolished as part of the [[2009 structural changes to local government in England]] on 1 April.

==History==
{{see also|Caradon District Council elections}}
===Hundreds of East and West Wivelshire===
All of Caradon is included in one of these two hundreds. East [[Wivelshire]] and West Wivelshire (usually known merely as '''East''' and '''West''') are two of the ancient [[Hundreds of Cornwall]]. East and West (Wivelshire) must have originally had a Cornish name but it is not recorded (Wivel arises from the misdivision of Twivelshire, i.e. Two-fold shire). There are also Anglican deaneries by the same names but the modern boundaries do not correspond exactly. The area must have formed one hundred originally but had already been divided into two before the Norman Conquest: they are grouped in Domesday under the head manors of Rillaton (East) and Fawton (West). The Cornish names are: East (Ryslegh); West (Fawy).<ref>[[:kw:Res Legh]]</ref><ref>[[:kw:Fawy]]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040131050142/http://www.caradon.gov.uk/ Caradon District Council]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043009/http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%27dccrd%27%29 Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Caradon District Council]

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[[Category:Former non-metropolitan districts of Cornwall]]
[[Category:English districts abolished in 2009]]