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  2. Jamaica Inn - Wikipedia

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    The Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, which was built as a coaching inn in 1750, and has a historical association with smuggling. Located just off the A30 , near the middle of the moor close to the hamlet of Bolventor , it was originally used as a staging post for changing horses. [ 1 ]

  3. Bolventor - Wikipedia

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    Bolventor is the location of the famous Jamaica Inn coaching inn. It is bypassed by a dual carriageway section of the A30 trunk road; before the bypass was built the hamlet straddled the A30 road. Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn. The inn that inspired ...

  4. File:Jamaica Inn, Bodmin Moor - geograph.org.uk - 652389.jpg

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  5. Brown Willy - Wikipedia

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    Brown Willy is a popular destination for walkers and is said to be one of "the UK's best-loved high points". [12] The hill features in an annual race held on New Year's Day that starts and finishes at Jamaica Inn , an old coaching inn made famous by Daphne du Maurier 's 1936 novel of the same name .

  6. History of Cornwall - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the 18th century, Cornwall was administered as an integral part of the Kingdom of Great Britain along with the rest of England and the Cornish language had gone into steep decline. The Industrial Revolution brought huge change to Cornwall, as well as the adoption of Methodism among the general populace, turning the area ...

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  8. Jamaica Inn (film) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, Jamaica Inn was the last of his "British period" films, though he returned to Britain often over the years to film other pictures there: Aventure Malgache and Bon Voyage (both 1944), Under Capricorn (filmed in 1948), Stage Fright (filmed in 1949), The Man Who Knew Too Much (filmed in 1955), and Frenzy (filmed in 1971). [8] [9]

  9. Jamaica Inn (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall around 1815. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists as a pub in the middle of Bodmin ...