Launceston (Cornish: Lannstevan) is in Cornwall.
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Launceston is on the A30 (the main trunk road running though the center of Cornwall). It is about 45 minutes (41 miles) from Exeter.
This small town of around 12,000 people is easy to cover on foot. Taxis are inexpensive but not required in the town centre.
- 1 Launceston Castle, Castle Lodge, PL15 7DR, ☎+44 1566 772365. Built in the 11th century by Brian de Bretagne, the first Norman Earl of Cornwall adults £3.60, children £2.20, concessions £3.20.
- 1 St. Mary Magdalene. a 16th-century church with one of the most lavishly carved exteriors of any Church in England
- 1 Lawrence House, 9 Castle Street, PL15 8BA, ☎+44 1566 773277, e-mail: lawrencehouse@nationaltrust.org.uk.
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