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129: 121: 1351: 441: 292: 1001: 24: 226:, 976, but only one specimen is known to exist (it weighs 1.61g). However, after the Norman Conquest the Norman Earl acquired Dunheved and rebuilt the castle there. He expropriated the market and mint of the canons and the townspeople followed them to Dunheved. (The name of Launceston belonged originally to the monastery and town here, but was then transferred to the town of 230:.) The church of St Stephen retained its importance and remained the mother church of many of the surrounding parishes, Tremaine, Egloskerry, Tresmeer, Werrington, St Giles, Laneast, St Thomas, St Mary Magdalene and others throughout the Middle Ages. 247:. The church's buttressed and battlemented tower (16th century) houses a ring of six bells. The church was built in the early 13th century after the monastery which had been on this site had moved into the valley near the 980: 243: 251:. The old tower was demolished by Reginald Earl of Cornwall. The present fine tower was built in the 16th century; the font is Norman. On the Tamar at 407: 41: 973: 88: 893: 155:. The population of the parish in the 2001 census was 312, increasing to 360 and including Dutson at the 2011 census. The former parish of 60: 990: 67: 966: 1377: 74: 56: 1416: 128: 313: 946: 666: 437: 429: 333: 851: 845: 107: 222:) (the name did not then belong to Dunheved the present town). A mint was established here as early as the reign of 933: 483: 446: 45: 255:
is the oldest bridge in Cornwall: it has two pointed arches and the roadway has been widened in modern times.
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The parish church, dedicated to St Stephen, is within the northern outskirts of the town of Launceston at
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whose canons owned the surrounding land including the town of Launceston (i.e.
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Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; CP40/800, in 1461;
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In Anglo-Saxon times there was a monastery here dedicated to
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and is bounded to the south by the parishes of Launceston,
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An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coin Finds, c. 973-1086
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The parish lies immediately north west of the town of
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Launceston
Launceston Rural District
Launceston
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Lawhitton
River Tamar
Devon
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North Petherwin
Egloskerry
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