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Which English village did John Leleand describe as a praty cloting towne, and hath a faire church?

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Which English village did John Leleand describe as a praty cloting towne, and hath a faire church?

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In the 1540s, the traveller John Leleand wrote that Tintagel was ‘a mervelus strong and notable forteres, and almost situ loci inexpungable’, with a keep on the ‘high terrible cragge’ and surrounded by the {sea;} but in his day the Island was apparently a feeding ground for rabbits and sheep, approached only by a bridge made of long elm trees.

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