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Jamaica Inn

Bolventor, Cornwall

Bolventor, Launceston PL15 7TS

Daily (bar/restaurant/museum)

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About Jamaica Inn

The eighteenth-century coaching inn on the old packhorse route across Bodmin Moor was immortalised by Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. The inn retains its atmospheric stone exterior and houses a museum dedicated to du Maurier and to the smugglers and wreckers of her story. Whether the ghosts she encountered here actually exist is, perhaps, best left unresolved.
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Location

Nearby Attractions

Dozmary Pool

natural

A remote and wind-swept pool on the heart of Bodmin Moor, Dozmary is steeped in Arthurian legend — it is one of several places claimed as the lake into which Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur as Arthur lay dying. Once thought to be bottomless, it is in fact quite shallow, but the atmosphere of the moor around it — especially in winter — remains genuinely unearthly.

2.1 km away

Golitha Falls

natural

The River Fowey cascades through ancient sessile oak woodland in a series of waterfalls and rapids that are particularly dramatic after rain. The National Nature Reserve protecting the woodland has one of the best surviving examples of upland Atlantic oakwood in Cornwall — lichens, mosses and ferns of rare quality carpet the boulders and trees in every shade of green.

3.8 km away

Common Moor Village

tourism

Common Moor or Commonmoor is a hamlet in Cornwall, England. As a programmatic destination page, it works well as a hub for nearby beaches, walks, heritage sites, food spots and local itinerary links across CornwallMagazine.

4.1 km away

Doublebois Village

tourism

Doublebois (Cornish: Dewgoes), is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. As a programmatic destination page, it works well as a hub for nearby beaches, walks, heritage sites, food spots and local itinerary links across CornwallMagazine.

5.6 km away

Dobwalls Village

tourism

Dobwalls is a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. As a programmatic destination page, it works well as a hub for nearby beaches, walks, heritage sites, food spots and local itinerary links across CornwallMagazine.

5.7 km away

Minions Heritage Centre

historic

A small but engaging heritage centre in the former engine house at Minions, the highest village on Bodmin Moor, telling the story of the bronze and copper mining that shaped this landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The centre sits at the heart of a landscape rich in prehistory — the Hurlers stone circles are a five-minute walk away.

5.7 km away

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