Bodmin
Bodmin a small town of around 15,000 people in the middle of North Cornwall to the south west of Bodmin Moor. It was the major religious and administrative centre for Cornwall throughout the Middle Ages from the late Saxon period onwards.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 14,600 residents
- Description: town in Cornwall, England
- Also known as: “Bodmin Borough” and “Bodmin, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bodmin and Wenford Railway and Callywith College.
Bodmin and Wenford Railway
Photo: Our Phellap, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bodmin Railway is a 6 miles 12 chains heritage railway at Bodmin in Cornwall, England. Its headquarters are at Bodmin General railway station and it connects with the national rail network at Bodmin Parkway.
Callywith College
College
Callywith College is a further education college in Bodmin, Cornwall. The first all-new college in the UK for 20 years, it was created with the assistance of Truro and Penwith College to serve students aged 16–19 from mid, north and east Cornwall, and opened in September 2017.
Bodmin Jail
Museum
Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bodmin Jail is a historic former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built in 1779 and closed in 1927, a large range of buildings fell into ruin, but parts of the prison have been turned into a tourist attraction, and more recently another large part was converted into a hotel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helland and Nanstallon.
Helland
Village
Helland is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated 2+1⁄2 miles north of Bodmin. The meaning of the name Helland is unclear: it is possible that the origin is in Cornish hen & lan. Helland is situated 2½ miles north of Bodmin.
Nanstallon
Hamlet
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nanstallon is a village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles west of Bodmin. Nanstallon is in the civil parish of Lanivet overlooking the River Camel valley and the Camel Trail, a long distance path.
Bodiniel
Hamlet
Bodiniel is a group of small settlements in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom one mile north of Bodmin town centre. It is in the civil parish of Helland. The settlements are three farmstead hamlets on high ground overlooking the River Camel valley.
Bodmin
- Categories: civil parish, county town, and locality
- Location: North Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.4707° or 50° 28′ 15″ northLongitude
-4.7243° or 4° 43′ 28″ westPopulation
14,600Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BDMOpen location code
9C2QF7CG+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 60455399OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Bodmin” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bodmin”
- Basque: “Bodmin”
- Belarusian: “Бодмін”
- Bengali: “বোডমিন”
- Breton: “Bodmin”
- Breton: “Bosvena”
- Breton: “Bosvenegh”
- Catalan: “Bodmin”
- Cebuano: “Bodmin”
- Chinese: “Bodmin”
- Chinese: “博德明”
- Chinese: “博特敏”
- Cornish: “Bosmenehy”
- Cornish: “Bosvena”
- Cornish: “Bosvenegh”
- Cornish: “Bosvenehy”
- Danish: “Bodmin”
- Dutch: “Bodmin”
- French: “Bodmin”
- German: “Bodmin”
- Gujarati: “બોડમિન”
- Hebrew: “בודמין”
- Hungarian: “Bodmin”
- Irish: “Bodmin”
- Irish: “Bosvenegh”
- Italian: “Bodmin”
- Japanese: “ボトミン”
- Japanese: “ボドミン”
- Kannada: “ಬೋಡ್ಮಿನ್”
- Korean: “보드민”
- Ladin: “Bodmin”
- Latin: “Bodamina”
- Latin: “Bodminia”
- Latin: “Bosvena”
- Latin: “Voliba”
- Latin: “Voluba”
- Lithuanian: “Bodminas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bodmin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bodmin”
- Persian: “بودمین”
- Polish: “Bodmin”
- Portuguese: “Bodmin”
- Romanian: “Bodmin”
- Russian: “Бодмин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bodmin”
- South Azerbaijani: “بودمین”
- Spanish: “Bodmin”
- Swedish: “Bodmin”
- Tamil: “பாட்மின்”
- Telugu: “బోడ్మిన్”
- Turkish: “Bodmin”
- Ukrainian: “Бодмін”
- Urdu: “بوڈمین”
- Volapük: “Bodmin”
- Volapük: “Bosvena”
- Welsh: “Bodmin”
- Welsh: “Bosvena”
- Welsh: “Bosvenegh”
- Western Frisian: “Bodmin”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bodmin”. Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.