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    • Indenture’s of Launceston
    • Rare Launceston Mint Coin
    • Launceston’s Royal Standard
    • A Launceston Love Story
    • A Trip around Launceston by Jim Edwards
    • Launceston’s Important Dates
    • The Aftermath Fund
      • Pennygillam
    • Governance of Launceston
      • Launceston Borough/Town Council
        • Cecil Henry Robins a year as mayor
        • Launceston Town Council 1858-1880
        • Launceston Town Council 1881-1890
        • Launceston Town Council 1891
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        • Launceston Town Council 1893
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        • Launceston Town Council 1896
        • Launceston Town Council 1897
        • Launceston Town Council 1898
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        • Launceston Town Council 1905
        • Launceston Town Council 1906
        • Launceston Town Council 1907
        • Launceston Town Council 1908
        • Launceston Town Council 1909
        • Launceston Town Council 1910
        • Launceston Town Council 1911
        • List of Launceston Mayor’s
        • Mayoral Gallery
        • Cecil Henry Robins a year as mayor
      • Launceston and the Suffragettes
      • Launceston Members of Parliament
      • 1826 General Election
      • 1874 General Election
      • Rural District Council Meetings 1894-1910
    • Reminiscences of Launceston
      • Farmer Braddon’s Notebook
      • A memory of Lifton by Brian Keighley.
      • Eldred Broad’s Reminiscences
      • Reminiscences of Dr. Charles Gibson.
      • Memories of a Grandfather
      • Reminiscences of George Orchard
      • Reminiscences of Jack Earle
      • Reminiscences of John Ching
      • Reminiscences of John Dingley
      • Reminiscences of Richard Robbins
      • Richard Robbins 1856 Lecture
      • Richard Robbins 1884 Lecture
      • Voice from the Past
      • The Memories of Stanley Tout
      • Reminiscences of Thomas Vosper
      • Spoken Memories
    • St. Leonards Fair.
    • The curse of the Black Witch
    • 1892 Elopement Scandal
    • 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion
    • Launceston Cake
    • Launceston Events
      • Beating of the Bounds
      • Launceston Horse Show
      • 1931 Launceston Pageant
      • Launceston Water Fair
      • Royal Visits
    • Launceston and the Suffragettes
    • Launceston Ghost Stories
      • The Ghost of Dorothy Dinglet
      • Madford Ghost.
    • Pirates and Plague at Launceston
    • Sal Tregenna and Our L’il Village
      • A ‘Untin We Will Go.
      • All O’ A Bussell
        • All of a Bussell (Translated version)
      • BUDGETS an’ BUST-UPS
      • Carryin’ On!
      • Zilas an’ th’ Zider
  • The Place
    • Buildings of Launceston
      • 1 and 2, Church Street
      • Belle Vue
      • Castle Hill House
      • Chinthurst, St. Stephens Hill
      • Hurdon
      • Hurdon Way Estate
      • Landrends
      • Launceston Guildhall and Town Hall
      • Launceston Masonic Lodge
      • Launceston Meat Market House
      • Launceston’s 20th Century House Developments
      • Lawrence House
      • Liberal Club
      • Madford
      • Manaton House
      • Newport Round House
      • No 18/16 Western Road
      • No.20 Church Street.
      • No.5 Southgate Street.
      • Noah’s Ark Tenement.
      • Oddfellows Hall
      • Pendruccombe House.
      • Priory House
      • Ridgegrove Mill
      • Tamar View Terrace
      • The Brotherhood Hall
      • Winsor House and Terrace.
    • The Nailed Skull of Launceston Priory.
    • Launceston Businesses
    • Launceston’s Water Supply.
      • Launceston’s Water Supply Development
    • Launceston Police and Crime
    • Miscellaneous
    • Rivers of Launceston.
      • Lowley Brook.
      • River Inney.
      • River Kensey.
      • River Lynher.
      • River Ottery.
      • River Tamar.
  • The People
  • The Parishes
    • Altarnun
    • Ashwater
    • Bolventor
      • Bronn Wennili
      • Jamaica Inn
      • Dozmary Pool
    • Bradstone
    • Boyton
      • Boyton Marriage Register 1568-1804
      • Boyton Methodist Chapel
      • Boyton Bridge
      • Polapit Tamar
    • Egloskerry
      • Egloskerry Church Clock
        • Egloskerry Marriage Registers 1574-1812
    • Dunterton.
    • Laneast
      • Laneast Marriage Registers 1680 -1812
    • Broadwoodwidger
    • Lawhitton
      • The Bennetts Arms.
      • Wishworthy and Bulsworthy
    • Lewannick
      • Lewannick 1938 P.O. Directory
      • Lewannick Marriage Registers 1675-1812
    • Lewtrenchard
    • Lezant
      • Lezant 1938 P.O. Directory
      • Lezant Marriage Registers 1539-1812
      • Landue House.
    • Lifton
      • Lifton from the Kelly’s Directory of 1902
      • Lifton Primary School
      • Lifton Roller Mill (Spry Mill)
      • A memory of Lifton by Brian Keighley.
      • Ambrosia
    • Linkinhorne
    • Luffincott
      • Luffincott in 1902
    • Kelly
    • Milton Abbot.
      • Milton Abbot in 1902
    • North Hill
      • North Hill Baptisms
      • North Hill Marriage Registers 1555-1748
      • Nine Stones, Eastmoor
      • Trewortha Marsh
    • North Petherwin
    • St. Clether.
      • St. Clether Marriage Registers 1640-1811
    • South Petherwin.
      • South Petherwin 1901 Census
      • South Petherwin 1911 Census
      • South Petherwin 1939 Register
      • South Petherwin Headstone Inscriptions
      • South Petherwin Burials 1656-1735
      • South Petherwin Marriage Register 1656-1812
      • South Petherwin School Gallery
      • South Petherwin Baptist Chapel
      • South Petherwin Village Pump
      • Petherwin Beds
      • Trebursye Manor
    • St. Giles on the Heath.
      • St. Giles in the Heath in 1902
      • St. Giles in the Heath Burials 1663-1812
      • St. Giles in the Heath Baptisms 1653-1773
      • St. Giles in the Heath Burials 1837-1904
      • St. Giles in the Heath Marriage Registers 1602-1812
      • St. Giles in the Heath Marriage Registers 1837-1897
    • Stoke Climsland
    • Stowford
    • Trecollas Bible Christian Chapel
    • Wesley Cottage
    • Tremaine
      • Tremaine Marriage Registers 1642-1812
    • Treneglos.
      • Treneglos Marriage Registers 1694-1812
    • Tresmeer.
      • Tresmeer Marriage Register 1813-1837
    • Trewen.
      • Trewen Marriages 1617-1754
      • Trewen Marriage Registers 1754-1837
    • Warbstow.
      • Warbstow Marriage Registers 1695-1812
    • Werrington.
      • Werrington in 1902
      • Werrington Baptisms 1746-1812
      • Werrington Burials 1746-1812
      • Werrington Marriage Registers 1654-1812
      • Yeolmbridge
        • Yeolmbridge Quarry.
  • The Galleries
    • The People Gallery
    • The School Galleries
    • The Shops of Launceston Gallery
  • The War Years
    • The Civil War and Launceston
    • Launceston Volunteer Corps
    • The Napoleonic wars
      • Launceston’s Trafalgar men
    • Those that served in the 1812 war
    • Launceston’s Boer War Volunteers
    • Launceston and World War One
      • Launceston’s fallen from World War One
      • Launceston through the First World War 1914-1915
      • Launceston through the First World War 1916
      • Launceston through the First World War 1917
      • Launceston through the First World War 1918
      • World War One Tribunals
      • War Memorial Dedication Wreaths
      • Constitutional Club, Launceston War Memorial
      • War Memorials from the locality of North Cornwall
      • Douglas Cavey
      • Dunheved College’s fallen from WW1
      • Launceston’s Servicemen of WW1
      • The Wounded and Awarded of WW1
      • Escape from Germany
      • The German Spy Case
      • Launceston WW1 100
        • Launceston WW1 100 Event Memories
        • Marion Nicolls
        • Women and the Land Army
          • Women’s Volunteer Force News Clippings
        • The Cornish and Devon Post during WW1
        • Trigg Major Magazine extracts during the First World War
    • Launceston and World War Two
      • Launceston’s fallen from World War Two
      • World War Two Timeline for the Fallen of Launceston District
      • An Evacuee’s Story
      • Launceston and World War Two 1940
      • Launceston and World War Two 1941.
      • Launceston and World War Two 1942.
      • Launceston and World War Two 1943.
      • Launceston and World War Two 1944.
      • Launceston and World War Two 1945.
      • Launceston’s Home Guard Units
      • Second World War Civilian Personnel
      • WW2 Plane Crashes around Launceston
      • Twenty Three days at Sea
      • Zofia Kossack
  • Lakes of Launceston
    • Colliford Lake
  • Churches and Chapels of Launceston
    • Baptist Church
    • Bible Christian Church
    • Central Methodist Church War Memorial
    • Congregational Church
    • Early Nonconformist days in Launceston
    • St. Cuthbert Mayne Church
    • St. Johns Chapel.
    • St. Mary Magdalene Church
      • Bowling Green Cemetery Plan
      • Signs and Badges of St. Mary Magdalene Church
      • St Mary Magdalene Church Sunday School
      • St. Mary Magdalene Marriage Registers 1601 -1650
      • St. Mary Magdalene Marriage Registers 1651 -1700
      • St. Mary Magdalene Marriage Registers 1701 -1750
      • St. Mary Magdalene Marriage Registers 1751 -1800
      • St. Mary Magdalene Marriage Registers 1801-1812
    • St. Thomas the Apostle Marriages 1563-1709
    • St. Thomas the Apostle Marriages 1710-1754
    • St. Thomas the Apostle Marriages 1754-1812
    • United Free Methodist Church
    • Launceston Priory
      • Prior Adam De Knolle and his Black Hound.
      • Prior Stephen Tredydan.
      • Public Executions at Launceston
      • The Fee of Treveniel.
    • Wesleyan Methodist Church
      • Launceston Wesleyan Ministers 1784-1901
  • Bridges of the Launceston Area
    • Druxton Bridge
    • Greystone Bridge
    • Nether Bridge
    • Polson Bridge
    • Trekelland Bridge
  • Buildings of Launceston
    • Angel Hill Legal Papers
    • Belle Vue
    • 1 and 2, Church Street
    • Badash Farm
    • Castle Hill House
    • Chapple
    • Chinthurst, St. Stephens Hill
    • Craigmore
    • Dockacre House
    • Drill Hall
    • Eagle House
    • Edymead House
    • Landrends
    • Launceston Masonic Lodge
    • Launceston Guildhall and Town Hall
    • Launceston Meat Market House
    • Launceston’s Workhouses.
    • Lawrence House
    • Liberal Club
    • Newport Round House
    • Madford
      • Madford Ghost.
    • Manaton House
    • No 18/16 Western Road
    • No.20 Church Street.
    • No.5 Southgate Street.
    • Noah’s Ark Tenement.
    • Oddfellows Hall
    • Passmore Edwards Free Library.
    • Pendruccombe House.
    • Priory House
    • The Mills of the Launceston District.
      • Ridgegrove Mill
    • Winsor House and Terrace.
  • Launceston Town Centre.
    • Broad Street Reservoir
  • East Cornwall Bank Company
  • Roadford Lake
  • Coronation Park
  • Education around Launceston
    • Launceston Grammar School
  • Evolution of Launceston’s Healthcare
    • Leper Hospital.
  • Hurdon
  • Launceston Events
    • Launceston Horse Show
  • Launceston Geology
    • Mining in the Launceston area
    • Quarries of the Launceston Area.
      • Bangors Slate Quarry
      • Polyphant Quarry.
      • Yeolmbridge Quarry.
  • Launceston Organisations.
    • Launceston Salvation Army
    • Launceston St.John Ambulance Brigade.
    • Launceston Town Band
    • Launceston Young Farmers Club
    • Launceston’s Womens Institute.
  • Launceston Streets and Roads.
    • Northgate and Tower Streets
  • Launceston Trustee Savings Bank
  • Launceston Businesses
    • Barriball and Sons
    • Bates Agricultural Machinery
    • Chaplin’s
    • Dunheved Foundry
    • Dunheved Motor Works
    • Gardner’s Drapery Shop
    • Greenaways Garages
    • J. S. Eyre Mineral Water
    • Launceston Abattoir
    • Lewannick and Launceston District Farmers
    • The Northumberland Foundry
    • The Wool Depot.
    • Tillotsons.
  • Launceston’s Public Houses
    • Angel Inn
  • Launceston Police and Crime
    • The Murder of Charlotte Dymond
      • The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond
    • The Trial of Annie Hearn
    • The Trial of Emma George
    • The Trial of Henry Spettigue
    • The Trial of Simon Kinver
    • Selina Wadge
  • The Withered Arm Railway Gallery
  • The White Hart Hotel.
  • Tamar Chain Bridge
  • Tamar View Terrace
  • The Brotherhood Hall
  • The Banks of 13 Broad Street
  • The Cornish and Devon Post
  • The Hardware Centre
  • The Coming of the railway
  • The life of the ‘Withered Arm’
  • The Cornwall Central Line
  • The Exeter Inn
  • St. Mary Magdalene Marriage Registers 1559 -1600
  • Scarne and Haye Common
  • Sheep Market Car Park.
  • Spry’s of Launceston
  • St. Josephs
  • Polyphant Quarry.
  • Railway Schemes that never made it
  • River Inney.
  • River Kensey.
  • River Lynher.
  • River Tamar.

The Parishes

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Altarnun

Ashwater

Bolventor

Boyton

Bradstone

Broadwoodwidger

Dunterton

Egloskerry

Kelly

Laneast

Lawhitton

Lewannick

Lezant

Lifton

Luffincott

Milton Abbot

North Hill

North Petherwin

St. Stephens Parish

St. Thomas Parish

South Petherwin

St. Clether

St. Giles on the Heath

Stowford

Treneglos

Tresmeer

Trewen

Warbstow

Werrington

 

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