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Launceston Town Wall
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Dunheved
In the civil parish of Launceston.
In the historic county of Cornwall (Modern Authority of Cornwall, 1974 county of Cornwall).
Small section and south gate of C13 stone wall survive. Gate is Grade 1 listed, walls Grade 2*.
This site has been described as a;
Urban Defence.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 369986, 370119)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SX331846
PastScape number;
437141, 437201, 437217, 437209, 437210, 437224, 437204
- Web site links
- Books
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p18, 24, 67, 72, 83, 214, 216, 238, 239-40, 26
Higham, Robert A., 1999, 'Castles, Fortified Houses and Fortified Towns in the Middle Ages' in Kain, R. and Ravenhill, W., Historical Atlas of South-West England (University of Exeter Press) p136-43
Salter, Mike, 1999, The Castles of Devon and Cornwall (Malvern) p25
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p18-19
Bond, C.J., 1987, 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Defences' in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report) p92-116
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p78
Sheppard, Peter, 1980, The historic towns of Cornwall: an archaeological survey p75-6
Barley, M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) Medieval Towns in England and Wales (CBA research reports) pp57-71
Turner, H.L., 1971, Town Defences in England and Wales (London) p197
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Robbins, A.F., 1888, Launceston, Past and Present (Launceston)
Peter, 1885, Histories of Launceston and Dunheved (Plymouth) p233-9
- Journal Articles
- 1896, Archeaolgia Cambrensis [ser5] Vol13 p341-3
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Speed, John, 1611-12, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain [http://faculty.oxy.edu/horowitz/home/johnspeed/Cities15.htm]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p62, 87-8
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p325
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