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Landrake (Cornish: Lannergh) is a village in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of Saltash in the civil parish of Landrake with St Erney. The A38 road used to pass through Landrake but a bypass now takes the trunk road north of the village. Landrake has a post office and shop, a pub named the Bullers Arms and Sir Robert Geffery's School, a primary school. The school takes its name from Landrake-born Sir Robert Geffery who, in 1704, bequeathed money to set up a trust to educate children of the parish.Landrake Church is dedicated to St Michael. It stands on a hill and the tower is 100 ft high. Parts of the building are Norman but the majority is of the 15th century. There is a brass to Edward Cowrtney, 1509.Francis Rous, an English politician, prominent Puritan and Provost of Eton spent some years at Landrake. For some years he lived there in seclusion and occupied himself with theological studies.