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Great building, beautiful formal and wooded gardens
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Traffic can be a problem in the Summer months
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One of the most famous gardens in England
Bodmin - Another day out in Cornwall
RogerLB Says: The Bodmin & Wenford Railway and Bodmin Jail Today I decided to take a day out in Bodmin (Cornwall UK). I left the Redruth area at 9.15am allowing myself an hour for the drive. With the tourist season significantly on the wane traffic was light and I arrived at Bodmin...
leics Says: This *is* Bolventor nowadays. The hamlet is tiny.The village once straddled the A30 Penzance road, so it is hardly surprising that an inn has been on the site since at least the 1500s (and probably lng before that). The present building dates from 1750, with later additions...
grayfo Says: The Town Museum is a late Victorian building displaying a collection of ores, minerals and fossils, a Cornish kitchen, photographs, artefacts, uniforms and posters and tells the story of the town from the earliest times until the end of World War II. Easter to...
grayfo Says: This granite Turret Clock was built in 1845 marks the site of Bodmin's ancient butter market and is now a grade II listed building.July 2011
grayfo Says: The Shire Hall was built in 1837-38 at the start of Queen Victoria’s reign, to house the Assize Courts. It hosted many famous trials in its time including that of Matthew Weeks who in 1844, was convicted of the murder of Charlotte Dymond on Bodmin Moor.In 1988, the Courts...
grayfo Says: Saint Petroc’s is the largest parish church in Cornwall with the existing building dating back to 1469-72, until the building of Truro Cathedral it was the largest church in Cornwall. The tower remains from the original Norman church and the church went through two Victorian...
ardnas67 Says: We visited Bodmin jail. The original jail was built for King George III in 1779. The Jail you see today was built by the prisoners who brought the 20,000 tons of granite from Bodmin`s “Cuckoo Quarry”. Look at the cold dank cells and let your imagionation work...
ardnas67 Says: The only reason we went to Bodmin was the Lanhydrock house. Now I've read more tips of this city, I'm ashamed i didn't visit more... mayby next time!Lanhydrock was beautiful, specially the kitchen. And the gardens, the graveyard
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lou31 Says: This little cafe seemed to be popular. It was situated in colourful Honey street which is in the main shopping part of town. I ordered an American Beef Burger, but was disapointed that the beef patty inside was just one of those cheap frozen ones.Others I noticed were going...
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Dennison Road – Bell Lane
Located 2 minutes from Fore Street (Town Centre) this is an open air ground level car park with toilets
Pay and Display
Long Stay
Capacity: 62 cars
Monday to Saturday: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
3 Hours: £3.00
Dennison Road, Bodmin PL31 2LW
July 2011
Written Jul 23, 2011
grayfo Says: This traditional street market features local farm produce, fruit and vegetables and meat, as well as clothes, hardware and a wealth of other goods, some of which is offered by stallholders who also retail out of stores on Bodmin's high street.We actually visited on July 22,...
Malcolm Barnecott: Pasties again
ranger49 Says: Here we found the impressive, smart Bodmin Branch of the delectable Pasty shop we had been to in Wadebridge.We were too late for pasties and had even sold out of bread!Seems you need to go early to sample the pasties.
Bwana_Brown Says: The owners of the Lanhydrock estate made their mark in the world primarily though the profits arising from their tin-mining interests. This is a very old industry in Cornwall, dating from at least 330 BC, although it really hit its peak between the period 1840-1865. The...
Geoff_Wright Says: Well, not quite tennis, but I did happen to spot the arrival of a Lawn Bowls team from Somerset. The ladies wer very well turned out, in their splendid jackets and white skirts. They didn't have much time to chat to me, but were happy for me to take a photo of them!
ranger49 Says: One thing that has got very much worse is the volume of traffic passing through the town -which is at the crossroads for all traffic using the Moor. It seemed to be particularly bad between about 3.30 and 5pm. Avoid it if you can!We didn't and hit town just as everyone was...
Geoff_Wright Says: Bodmin Town is now an alcohol free zone, and if you are caught consuming alcohol within the zone, you are liable to a fine of up to £500.00 (Five Hundered Pounds). At least this has helped to control the Larger Louts, although really, I have no idea if there ever were such...
leafmcgowan Says: Colliford Lake is a popular reservoir on the Bodmin Moor in mystical Cornwall. It covers over 900 acres of land and is the second largest lake in Cornwall. Right off the A30 trunk by Bolventor it is also close to Bodmin. A 50 acre adventure and nature park called "Colliford...
leafmcgowan Says: One of Europe's most infamous and exciting Faerie Festivals, Three Wishes does not disappoint in the Realms of Enchantment. It was my first (of hopefully many) Three Wishes Faerie Fests. A gathering place for the faery clans to meet with the mortal humans in heartland of the...
grayfo Says: Bodmin is an ancient trading town that lies on a route that crosses Cornwall North to South called the Saint's Way. The town was sometimes referred to as the Mariner's Way due to merchants from Wales, Ireland and Northern France who crossed Cornwall overland from the Camel...
Monique_T Says: I am not even sure anymore what this is but when you are walking around you will surely pass by. Maybe anyone can tell what it is?
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Bodmin is a typical small Cornish town of about 14,000 people, situated on steep hills beside the River Fowey and located about mid-way between the north and south coasts of the county. Because the......
Bodmin formally the capital town of Cornwall is still the County Town and was once the religious capital of the West Country. Bodmin is situated in the centre of the county Cornwall is just 30 minutes...
Jamaica Inn and the wild moorland.
Jamaica Inn is not in Bodmin. It's in Bolventor....a tiny hamlet high up on wild and empty Bodmin Moor and not in the VT database (not surprisingly) I didn't visit Bodmin the town. I'll do that next...
Bodmin, A day out in Cornwall, UK
I visited the Bodmin & Wenford Steam Railway trip and the Nearby Bodmin Jail as detailed in my tip on things to do in Bodmin
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