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Launceston

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About Launceston

Launceston is a metropolis, historic borough, and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is one mile west of the center stage of the River Tamar, which constitutes nearly the complete border among Cornwall and Devon. The panorama of the metropolis is normally steep especially at a sharp south-western knoll crowned by using Launceston Castle. These gradients crumple to the River Kensey and smaller tributaries. The town centre itself is bypassed and is now not bodily a prime thoroughfare. The A388 nevertheless runs through the metropolis near the centre.

The metropolis stays figuratively the "gateway to Cornwall", because of having the A30, one of the dual carriageways into the county bypass without delay next to the metropolis. The different highway and alternative major point of entry is at Saltash over the Tamar Bridge and became completed in 1962. There are smaller factors of access to Cornwall on minor roads. Launceston Steam Railway slender-gauge background railway runs as a tourist attraction in the course of the summer time months. It was restored for aesthetic and industrial heritage purposes and runs along a brief rural path, it is famous with site visitors however does no longer run for a lot of the year.

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