Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
Botallack (Cornish: Bostalek, meaning "Talek's dwelling") [1] is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives in the east to the A30 road, near Land's End. The village is included in the St Just in Penwith division on Cornwall Council.
Portloe alias St Gweep. Cornwall's rugged landscape and scenery have been used by film and television companies as a backdrop for some of their productions.. The most recent critically and commercially successful film to be made mostly in Cornwall was the 2019 musical comedy, Fisherman's Friends and its 2022 sequel which in turn was inspired by the true story of the folk band of the same name ...
The Forgotten Corner of Cornwall is a geographical area of South East Cornwall, Great Britain. It includes the Rame Peninsula and the town of Torpoint , as well as villages like Antony , Downderry , Polbathic , Portwrinkle and Widegates .
Port Quin surrounded by farms. The harbour is surrounded by 3 local farms Roscarrock, Trevigo and Scarrabine all run by local families. Part of Port Quin and a few small fields around the hamlet are owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty; the Trust rents out several of the stone cottages as self-catering holiday accommodation.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:43, 26 September 2010: 1,425 × 1,048 (1.66 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of Cornwall, UK with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 1