Launceston and Area

Launceston offers specialty shops selling locally  produced foods through to unique and unusual gifts all situated within the towns narrow streets.The indoor Friday Market at Central Methodist Church Hall offer locally produced food, alongside an assortment of local crafts, gifts and plants. 

The bustling Butter Market, is held in the Town Square (on the site of the original Market) on the first and third  Saturday of each month between March and December. Here you can browse the varied stalls with their wide variety of goods incuding local foods, hand crafted jewellery, candles, soaps and many other interesting and unusual  gifts and essentials.

Follow the town trails, winding past St Mary's Church, famed for its extravagantly carved exterior, visit the award winning Lawrence House Museum sited in a fine example of Georgian architecture. Up to the castle keep where you can enjoy panoramic views stretching far beyond Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor or down to the steam railway and take a ride through the glorious Kensey Valley

Alternatively sit on the castle green on a warm summers day and admire the intricate pattern of the townscape looking down to St. Thomas and Newport, across to St. Stephens and its Church, set high on a hill. At the end of a leisurely walk why not stop at one of Launceston's many cafés, or  for something more substantial there are restaurants serving a variety of cuisines during the day and the evening. 

Launceston Castle is the starting point for two long distance walks, The Two Castles Trails between Launceston and Okehampton Castle, and the Tamar Valley Discovery Trail between Launceston and Plymouth