Tavistock ( ) is an ancient stannary and market town within West Devon, England. Social life on campus centres around a building known as the Stannary. These were taken on pack horses to the stannary towns for assaying. Survival of stannary records has been rather patchy. In 1305 it was made a stannary town where tin was traded. The Junction to Stannary Hills line was dismantled in 1926. There was at this period no definition of the districts of each stannary. The duke had a ceremonial role in summoning the Cornish Stannary Parliament. The economy of Prideaux may have been based in part on the stannary. Creek Gorge is between Bock's Creek and Stannary Hills. The elected officers of the Cornish Stannary Parliament are not published. The stannary courts were abolished in 1836. Elections to Revived Cornish Stannary are from among the Cornish Stannary Community. Members of the Stannary Parliament were called ""Stannators"". In Cornwall, such prospecting was monitored by the Stannary.