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Launceston (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 38 02 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.6339 decimal degrees |
| Long: 004 21 52 W degrees minutes |
Long: -4.3644 decimal degrees |
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Note: Once the site of a Saxon mint and an ecclesiastical college; militarily important as Cornwall's only walled town and its castle, now in ruins, was able to guard the border between Cornwall and Devon; castle called 'Castle Terrible' by Malory in his "Morte d'Arthur." |
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| Launceston (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Dunheved (C,O)
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| Dunheued (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
| Dunheuet (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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