Village · 1,548 residents
Good · better than 4 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Linkinhorne scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (88) and transport (76).
It scores lowest on health (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Linkinhorne in South West, each measured against the national average.
Linkinhorne sits up on the Cornish moorland edge — the kind of hamlet where the church tower and a scatter of farmhouses do most of the talking, and there's no high street to speak of because there was never meant to be one. This is a place people move to, not through.
There isn't enough here in the way of hard numbers to give you the usual picture of schools, commute times or crime patterns for Linkinhorne itself — no local school, transport or safety data came through for this particular spot. What we do have is the wider frame: Cornwall as a whole runs a median house price around £285,000 and a crime rate of roughly 73.6 per 1,000, which gives you a rough sense of the county Linkinhorne belongs to, even if it says little about this hamlet specifically.
Given how thin the picture is at this scale, it's worth being straight about it rather than dressing it up. If you're weighing up Linkinhorne, you'll want to look at the immediate parish and neighbouring villages directly — Callington and the surrounding area — for the schools, transport links and day-to-day services you'd actually rely on, since a hamlet this small often shares its infrastructure with the nearest larger settlement rather than having its own.
Data last updated: 19 October 2026
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