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| navigate by keyword : 1540 1545 bay built cannon carrick castle castles cornwall could cover designed earliest entire entrance estuary fal falmouth france henry invasion mawes one opposite pair pendennis peninsula protect river roads roseland spain strategic them threat two used viii was |
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| The castle was built for Henry VIII between 1540 and 1545. It was designed as one of a pair, with Pendennis Castle opposite, to protect the strategic estuary from the threat of invasion by Spain and France. Among the earliest castles designed to be used with cannon, between them the two castles could cover the entire entrance to the estuary |
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