Launceston
Launceston is a community, old borough, as well as civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the center stage of the River Tamar, which constitutes practically the whole border between Cornwall and Devon. The landscape of the town is generally high specifically at a sharp south-western ridge covered by Launceston Castle. These slopes fall down to the River Kensey and smaller tributaries. The town centre itself is bypassed and is no more physically a major thoroughfare. The A388 still goes through the community near to the centre. The town stays figuratively the "entrance to Cornwall", because of having the A30, among both twin carriageways right into the region, pass straight next to the community. The other twin carriageway as well as different main point of entrance is the A38 at Saltash over the Tamar Bridge and was completed in 1962. There are smaller points of entry to Cornwall on small roadways. Launceston Steam Railway narrow-gauge heritage railway runs as a visitor attraction during the summertime. It was restored for visual as well as commercial heritage purposes and leaves a short country route, it is prominent with site visitors but does not compete much of the year. Launceston Castle was developed by Robert, Count of Mortain (half-brother of William the Conqueror) c. 1070 to regulate the surrounding area. Launceston was the caput of the feudal barony of Launceston and of the Earldom of Cornwall till replaced by Lostwithiel in the 13th century. Launceston was later on the county town of Cornwall until 1835 when Bodmin changed it. 2 civil parishes serve the community and also its outskirts, of which the main more built-up management unit housed 8,952 citizens at the 2011 census. Three electoral wards include recommendation to the community, their total population, from 2011 census data, being 11,837 and also two ecclesiastical parishes serve the former single church, with 3 churches as well as a big swathe of land to the north and also west part of the location. Launceston's motto "Royale et Loyale" (English translation: Royal and Loyal) is a reference to its adherence to the Cavalier reason during the English Civil War of the mid-17th century.
