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The Normans in Britain concentrated the defence of the country in castles, which began to be built all over. In many places where a castle was built in a strategically important position, especially in regions liable to attack such as the Scottish and Welsh borders, a new town began to cluster round it, seeking its protection and supplying its daily needs. Such towns as Arundel, Alnwick, Devizes, Barnard Castle, Launceston, Ludlow, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pontefract and Richmond in Yorkshire all grew up in the shelter of great Norman castles, and many of them were provided with walls.
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Richard Everard Webster (Viscount Alverstone) was an English lawyer and politician. He was born in 1842 and died in 1915. Educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868 he became a barrister and in 1878 a QC. In 1885 he entered the House of Commons as Conservative member for Launceston and was appointed attorney-general. He later represented the Isle of Wight and in 1900 was made Master of the Rolls and transferred to Lord Chief Justice in the same year, a position he held until 1913.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton, was an Anglo-American humorous writer. He was born in 1796 at Windsor, Nova Scotia and died in 1865. He practised as a barrister in Halifax, wrote a Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia, in 1829, and contributed a series of humorous letters to a Halifax newspaper under the pseudonym of 'Sam Slick.' These were published in book form and were augmented by others, forming The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick. In 1842 he became judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, but subsequently gave up his professional duties and came to reside in England. Here he published the Attache, or, Sam Slick in England. His hero again appears in Sam Slick's Traits of American Humour (1852). Another work of his of some importance is Rule and Misrule of the English in America (1851). In 1859 Judge Haliburton was elected member of parliament for Launceston.
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In the Arthurian legends, Castle Terabil or Castle Terrible (sometimes called Dunheved Castle) was a castle in Launceston within ten miles of Tintagel. The castle had a steep keep environed with a triple wall.
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The Launceston is an Australian PCF 420 class patrol craft of 211 tons displacement and a top speed of 30 knots. She is armed with one Bofors AN 4 - 40 mm/60 gun; one 81 mm mortar and two 12.7 mm machine-guns. She carries a crew of three officers and 19 other ratings.
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HMS Launceston Castle was a British Castle Class frigate of 1100 tons displacement launched in 1943. She carried a crew of 96, and had a top speed of 16.5 knots. Armaments consisted of one 4 inch calibre Mk XIX gun; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns in a twin arrangement; two 20 mm guns in a twin arrangement; one squid three-barrelled anti-ship mortar; two depth charge launchers and fifteen depth charges.
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Bude is a town and seaport in Cornwall, England. The town is the only port in Cornwall and the town developed mainly after the Bude Canal to Launceston was built in the 1820s. The arrival of the railway in the 1880s (which is now closed) put the canal out of business and brought the holidaymakers.
Bude is a town in Franklin County, Mississippi, USA.
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Launceston, officially called Dunheved otherwise Launceston, (erroneously recorded in the Domesday Book as Lanscavetone) is a town in Cornwall, England. Launceston was originally named Dounhed until in 1155 the canons of nearby St Stephens moved across the valley to Dounhed and took the name of their village with them - Lannstefan. It was the county town of Cornwall until 1835.
Launceston is the second-largest city of Tasmania.
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Tarrant Launceston is a village in Dorset, England.
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