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 152 CORNWALL district. The town occupies a height, and above it towers the ancient castle, but a portion of the town, Newport, lies in the valley at the foot. Both the G.W.R. and the L. & S.W.R. have stations at Launceston. The church of granite is richly sculptured throughout; but in a debased Perpendicular style. It replaced an older church of which the tower alone remains, (pp. 7, 15, 25, 67, 96, 104, in, 117, 121, 126, 129, 131, 132, 135, 137, 139.) Liskeard (4945), a municipal borough, market, and union town, head also of a county court district, with a station on the Launceston G.W.R. Liskeard returned two members to Parliament till disfranchised by the Redistribution Act of 1885. The church of St Martin is the largest in the county next to that of Bodmin; it is in the Perpendicular style but retains portions of earlier work. Liskeard mainly flourishes on the granite quarries of the Cheese- wring; it did at one time flourish still more on the mines of tin and copper in Caradon. (pp. 12, 18,31, 104, 119, 122, 125, 137, 139.)