Liskeard, a municipal borough in Cornwall, stands on steep hills overlooking the Looe, 18 miles
WNW. of Plymouth. It has manufactures of leather and iron, and a lively trade with the neighbouring mines. St Martin's church, Perpendicular in style, and restored in 1879, is one of the largest in Cornwall, and has a tower of the 14th century. The town-hall (1859) is a good Italian building. A stannary or coinage town, Liskeard was made a free borough in 1250 by Richard, king of the Romans, who built a castle here. Till 1832 it returned two members (Coke and Gibbon the most illustrious), and then till 1885 one member. Pop. (1851) 4386; (1881) 4536; (1891) 3984. Two miles south is the spring of St Keyne (q.v.). See Allen's History of Liskcard (1856).