Places to see in ( Bodmin - UK )
Places to see in ( Bodmin - UK )
Bodmin is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Bodmin is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor. The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. Bodmin is bordered to the east by Cardinham parish, to the southeast by Lanhydrock parish, to the southwest and west by Lanivet parish, and to the north by Helland parish.
Bodmin Town Council is made up of sixteen councillors who are elected to serve a term of four years. Each year, the Council elects one of its number as Mayor to serve as the town's civic leader and to chair council meetings.
Bodmin buildings of interest include the former Shire Hall, now a tourist information centre, and Victoria Barracks, formerly depot of the now defunct Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and now the site of the regimental museum. It includes the history of the regiment from 1702, plus a military library. The original barracks house the regimental museum which was founded in 1925. There is a fine collection of small arms and machine guns, plus maps, uniforms and paintings on display. Bodmin County Lunatic Asylum was designed by John Foulston and afterwards George Wightwick. William Robert Hicks the humorist was domestic superintendent in the mid-19th century.
Bodmin Jail, operational for over 150 years but now a semi-ruin, was built in the late 18th century, and was the first British prison to hold prisoners in separate cells (though often up to ten at a time) rather than communally. Over fifty prisoners condemned at the Bodmin Assize Court were hanged at the prison.
Bodmin Beacon Local Nature Reserve is the hill overlooking the town. The reserve has 83 acres (33.6 ha) of public land and at its highest point it reaches 162 metres with the distinctive landmark at the summit. The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.
Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles (5½ km) south-east from the town centre. A heritage railway, the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, runs from Bodmin Parkway station via Bodmin General railway station to Boscarne Junction where there is access to the Camel Trail. The bus link to Bodmin, Wadebridge and Padstow starts from outside the main entrance of Bodmin Parkway. Bus and coach services connect Bodmin with other districts of Cornwall and Devon.
( Bodmin - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Bodmin . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bodmin - UK
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Tamar Valley: A Destination Guide from Visit Cornwall
Tamar Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) straddles the administrative border between Cornwall and Devon and covers around 75 square miles of the lower Tamar River (below Launceston) and its tributaries. See the stunning National Trust house Cotehele and the popular historic tourist destination of Mount Edgcumbe.
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Doc Martin Filming Locations North Cornwall
- Doc Martin continues to be one of the most popular shows on British TV. The warm and amusing programme revolves around the lives of the grumpy doctor and his patients. The show also features a large dose of spectacular Cornish scenery and village scenes.
For holidaymakers looking to follow in the footsteps of Doc Martin and see some of the filming locations for themselves, Port Isaac and the surrounding countryside offers a whole host of places to visit. This video features some of the top Doc Martin filming locations in North Cornwall.
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Port Issac is an extra special place to stay for a holiday. Not only is it a terrific place for Doc Martin fans, it is unbelievably beautiful and romantically Cornish. Luckily we have a number of idyllic cottages in the heart of the village, where you can relax in comfort and enjoy the unique character of this lovely location which features so heavily in Doc Martin.
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Martin Clunes on set as Doc Martin in Port Issac. Photo by Richard Hall and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
The rugged, narrow cove of Port Gaverne. © Copyright Bob Jones and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
St Nonna’s Church in Altarnun. By Robert Powell, via Wikimedia Commons.
Pencarrow House near Bodmin. © Copyright Michael Garlick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Bodmin Parkway Station. By Olaf Tausch GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
BOSCAWEN-UN - Stone Circle in Cornwall | with Michael Bott
It’s one of the most enchanting stone circles you could ever wish to visit. A 19 stone fairy ring enclosed and secluded in the gorse and bracken, even the most hardened of souls will be tempted to believe in magic here. But there are details to this site that make it one of the most enigmatic megalithic monuments in the U.K. - watch to find out that today, Boscawen-Un is giving up some unexpected secrets.
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Boscastle ,Cornwall after the flood
Clearing up after the flood in 2004
Charlotte Dymond's grave
This video is of the grave of Charlotte Dymond in Davidstow churchyard at Davidstow, near Camelford, Cornwall, UK. Charlotte Dymond was murdered at Roughtor by her boyfriend, Matthew Weeks, who was caught at Plymouth and hanged at Bodmin jail. There is more information about this in the church. There is also a ballard which explains what happens.
The ballad is:
1
It was a Sunday evening
And in the April rain
That Charlotte went from our house
And never came home again.
13
Take me home! cried Charlotte,
‘I lie here in the pit!
A red rock rests upon my breasts
And my naked neck is split!’
2
Her shawl of diamond redcloth,
She wore a yellow gown,
She carried the green gauze handkerchief
She bought in Bodmin town.
14
Her skin was soft as sable,
Her eyes were wide as day,
Her hair was blacker than the bog
That licked her life away;
3
About her throat her necklace
And in her purse her pay:
The four silver shillings
She had at Lady Day.
15
Her cheeks were made out of honey,
Her throat was made of flame
Where all around the razor
Had written its red name.
4
In her purse four shillings
And in her purse her pride
As she walked out one evening
Her lover at her side.
16
As Matthew turned at Plymouth
About the tilting Hoe,
The cold and cunning constable
Up to him did go:
5
Out beyond the marshes
Where the cattle stand,
With her crippled lover
Limping at her hand.
17
‘I’ve come to take you, Matthew,
Unto the magistrate’s door.
Come quiet now, you pretty poor boy,
And you must know what for.’
6
Charlotte walked with Matthew
Through the Sunday mist,
Never saw the razor
Waiting at his wrist.
18
‘She is as pure,’ cried Matthew,
‘As is the early dew,
Her only stain it is the pain
That round her neck I drew!
7
Charlotte she was gentle
But they found her in the flood
Her Sunday beads among the reeds
Beaming with her blood.
19
‘She is as guiltless as the day
She sprang forth from her mother.
The only sin upon her skin
Is that she loved another.’
8
Matthew, where is Charlotte,
And wherefore has she flown?
For you walked out together
And now are come alone.
20
They took him off to Bodmin,
They pulled the prison bell,
They sent him smartly up to heaven
And dropped him down to hell.
9
Why do you not answer,
Stand silent as a tree,
Your Sunday worsted stockings
All muddied to the knee?
21
All through the granite kingdom
And on its travelling airs
Ask which of these two lovers
The most deserves your prayers.
10
Why do you mend your breast-pleat
With a rusty needle’s thread
And fall with fears and silent tears
Upon your single bed?
22
And your steel heart search, Stranger,
That you may pause and pray
For lovers who come not to bed
Upon their wedding day,
11
Why do you sit so sadly
Your face the colour of clay
And with a green gauze handkerchief
Wipe the sour sweat away?
23
But lie upon the moorland
Where stands the sacred snow
Above the breathing river,
And the salt sea-winds go.
12
Has she gone to Blisland
To seek an easier place,
And is that why your eye won’t dry
And blinds your bleaching face?
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