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Dunmere Castle

Fort

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Dunmere Castle was built in the late 13th or early 14th century by the de Dunstanville family, a prominent Norman landholding dynasty in Cornwall. It is remembered as a strategic defensive site in the rugged landscape of west Cornwall, reflecting the region's medieval history of local power and frontier defense.

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