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Dist:0.5km<br/>Bude can be seen through the rails on the left.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.7km<br/>Leigh is a small collect of dwellings and a farm to the east of Stratton.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.8km<br/>John Betjeman says that the arms in St Swithin's Church at Launcells are those of Charles I, while H. Miles Brown ascribes them to Charles II. In any case, like those in several of the churches in this area they are the work of Michael Chuke of Kilkhampton, a pupil of Grinling Gibbons, unusually executed in deep relief with strapwork decoration. Entrance and exit doorways to the former rood stairway can be seen below and to the right.
©James Yardley
Dist:0.8km<br/>A metalled but untarred lane heading between high hedges from Cross Lanes towards Grimscott.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.8km<br/>Ancient churches in the West Country are often sited in remote places, far from a village but recognised as numinous and "thin" in the Celtic tradition. There is usually running water nearby. Launcells is a fine example of a Cornish church secluded in a coombe, or deep wooded valley, with only the barton (fortified farmstead) for company. There is a holy well of St Swithin to the right just beyond the bridge.
©James Yardley
Dist:0.8km<br/>A glimpse of the unrestored interior from the top of the rood stair. The south arcade of dark grey Cornish polyphant contrasts with the piers on the north which are of much lighter granite. Above the 18th-century Gothic pulpit is an elaborate suspended tester, or sounding-board.
©James Yardley
Dist:0.8km<br/>Tucked away off the main road from Holsworthy to Stratton and Bude is this church without a village, at Launcells Barton.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.8km<br/>Just south of St Swithin's Church at Launcells.
©James Yardley
Dist:0.9km<br/>Post box and shed on the road by the turning to Launcells Barton
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.9km<br/>The shady lane up from the bridge near Launcells Barton
©Pierre Terre
Dist:1.4km southeast<br/>Looking SE across fields used for cattle grazing on the east side of Prustacott Farm, towards distant Dartmoor.
©Pierre Terre
Dist:1.4km west<br/>Sorry it was taken from an old slide, so the quality is not the best.
©C Page
Dist:1.4km west<br/>Cottages near the church in the village of Stratton.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.4km west<br/>Basically a cross, but with a box-shape at the top with a roof.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:1.4km west<br/>The Gallery Tea Rooms stand on the corner of Market Street and Church Street in Stratton. The top of the church tower can be seen on the right.
©Philip Halling

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