The north Cornwall coast, though facing the Atlantic rather than the Channel, was kept under watch in 1545 because a French fleet that had failed in the Channel might circumnavigate England and attempt a landing on the exposed Atlantic shore. The Tintagel watch and the broader network of north Cornwall coast watchers represented the outermost reach of the English coastal defence system during the Tudor period.
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Local Cornish militia and coastal watch parties at Tintagel and Hartland
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