Traditional finger post standing in Aberdaron Village. This is either an original old post refurbished or a new replica. This photograph was taken in 2015 - but a photograph of the same location in 2011 does not show this sign.

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Finger post - Sharptor and Henwood at Minions.

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A summer evening on the A30 at Bolventor in the days before the dual carriageway by-pass.

August 27, 1981

Bolventor (Cornish: Bedhasbold) is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. It is located in Altarnun civil parish between Launceston and Bodmin.

The hamlet has been said to take its name from the "Bold Venture" that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as "Bol-" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames. It is much more likely that the name derives from the 'Bold Adventure' tin-working area which was in operation near Jamaica Inn during the 1840s-1850s.

Bolventor is the location of the famous Jamaica Inn coaching inn. It is now 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 the novel, Jamaica Inn, has stood beside the main road through the village since 1547.


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Signs on Benar Road railway bridge.

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