Boscastle
Boscastle is a spectacularly located fishing village and tourist attraction on the coast of North Cornwall. The oldest and most attractive parts of the village surround the cliff-bound harbour and extend up the river valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dsgreat3, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: DKrieger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 641 residents
- Description: village and fishing port on north coast of Cornwall, England
- Also known as: “Boscastle, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Witchcraft and Magic and Forrabury and Minster parish churches.
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
Museum
Photo: JUweL, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, formerly known as the Museum of Witchcraft, is a museum dedicated to European witchcraft and magic located in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall, south-west England.
Forrabury and Minster parish churches
Church
Photo: DKrieger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The civil parishes to which the Forrabury and Minster parish churches belong were united in 1919 to form Forrabury and Minster parish, within Cornwall, England, UK.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trevalga and Beeny.
Trevalga
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trevalga is a coastal civil parish and hamlet in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded on the north by the Celtic Sea, on the southeast by Forrabury and Minster parish and on the west by Tintagel parish.
Beeny
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beeny is a hamlet in north Cornwall, England, UK. It lies in a sheltered valley near the coast two miles northeast of Boscastle.
Rocky Valley
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Rocky Valley is a small valley in the parish of Tintagel, north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The valley has been carved by the Trevillet River in Trethevy around one mile east of Tintagel.
Boscastle
- Categories: fishing port and locality
- Location: Forrabury and Minster, North Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.6895° or 50° 41′ 22″ northLongitude
-4.6924° or 4° 41′ 33″ westPopulation
641Elevation
289 feet (88 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BSCOpen location code
9C2QM8Q5+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 401881392OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Boscastle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بسكستل”
- Basque: “Boscastle”
- Basque: “Kastel Boterel”
- Cebuano: “Boscastle”
- Cornish: “Castel Boterel”
- Cornish: “Kastel Boterel”
- Cornish: “Kastell Boterel”
- Dutch: “Boscastle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بسكستل”
- French: “Boscastle”
- Galician: “Boscastle”
- Galician: “Kastell Boterel”
- German: “Boscastle”
- Hebrew: “בוסקאסל”
- Hungarian: “Boscastle”
- Irish: “Boscastle”
- Italian: “Boscastle”
- Japanese: “ボスキャッスル”
- Latin: “Boscastle”
- Persian: “بوسکاسل”
- Polish: “Boscastle”
- Quechua: “Boscastle”
- Slovenian: “Boscastle”
- Spanish: “Boscastle”
- Swedish: “Boscastle”
- Welsh: “Boscastle”
- Welsh: “Kastel Boterel”
- Western Frisian: “Boscastle”
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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 “Boscastle”. Photo: DKrieger, CC BY-SA 3.0.