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Launceston a borrowed name -- Celtic system of separation between / town of the castle and town of the church -- A saint's curse -- Old / name Dunheved -- Castle -- Church -- Sir Henry Trecarrel -- The river / Tamar -- Old houses -- S. Clether's Chapel -- Altarnon -- The corn / man -- Cutting a neck -- The Petherwins -- Story of S. Padarn -- Is / visited by his cousin, Samson -- Trewortha Marsh -- Kilmar -- An / ancient village -- Redmire -- Cornish bogs -- Dozmare / Pool -- Lewanick -- Cresset-stone -- Trecarrel -- Old mansions -- The / Botathen ghost.
The most singular thing about the former capital of Cornwall is that it does not bear its true name. Launceston is Llan Stephan, the church of S. Stephen. Now the church of S. Stephen is on the summit of a hill on the further side of the river, divided from the town by the ancient borough of Newport.