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St Mawes is a small town located across the water from Falmouth on the Roseland Peninsula on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK. For more information, see cornwall-holidays.info/
St Mawes Castle (Cornish: Kastel Lannvowsedh) is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal.