Nanstallon is in the civil parish of Lanivet GENUKI website; Lanivet; retrieved April 2010 overlooking the River Camel valley and the Camel Trail long distance path. The present terminus of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway at Boscarne is half-a-mile (0.8 km) from the village. The site of the former Nanstallon Halt station is an access point to the Camel Trail. St Stephen's Church, Nanstallon, is a Church of England chapel-of-ease in the parish of Lanivet.
