Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.

In 1881 the Roman Catholic mass was celebrated in Bodmin for the first time since 1539.

Bodmin College is a large state comprehensive school for ages 11 – 18 on the outskirts of the town and on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

* Nicholas Boyer, the mayor of Bodmin, hanged for rebellion, 1549

Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922 – 1924 and 1929 – 1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.

In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

Bossiney ( which included Trevena ) was held from the monks of Bodmin by the Earl of Cornwall: there was land for 6 ploughs and of pasture ( before the Conquest it had been held from the monks by Alfwy ).

The monks of Bodmin held Treknow themselves: there was land for 8 ploughs and of pasture.

The canal was used first to transport lime from Wales for use in Cornish farming, and later to carry copper and granite between the railhead at Liskeard ( from where rail links reached to the Cheesewring on Bodmin Moor ) and the port at Looe.

The Upper Fowey SSSI is a floodplain on the southern slopes of Bodmin Moor and is designated for its wet heath vegetation and herbaceous valley-floor mire communities.

In 1827 he became the representative of Dublin University, having previously sat successively for the boroughs of Athlone, Yarmouth, Bodmin and Aldeburgh.

John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor and Viscount Bodmin PC ( 1606 – 17 July 1685 ), known as The Lord Robartes ( or John, Lord Roberts ) between 1634 and 1679, was an English politician, who fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

In 1679, for his support of Charles's policy of making his brother his successor, John was made Lord President of the Council and was created Viscount Bodmin and 1st Earl of Radnor.

In 1782, he was tried at Bodmin Assizes and sentenced to death for " burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Thomas Olive and stealing thereout 2 silver watches, value 5 pounds.

Water volumes are affected by the reservoir at Crowdy Marsh, by abstraction of water for public supply, and by effluent from the sewage system around Bodmin.

Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922 – 1924 and 1929 – 1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.

Probably born in South Wales, he primarily ministered to the Britons of Devon ( Dewnans ) and Cornwall ( Kernow ), where he is associated with monasteries at Padstow, which is named after him ( Pedroc-stowe, or ' Petrock's Place ') and which appears to have been his earliest major cult centre, and Bodmin, which became the major centre for his veneration when his relics were moved there in the later ninth century, Bodmin monastery becoming one of the wealthiest Cornish foundations by the eleventh century.

Michael Joseph ( better known as Michael An Gof, where An Gof is Cornish for " blacksmith "; died 27 June 1497 ) and Thomas Flamank ( a Bodmin landowner's son and London lawyer ) were the leaders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.

Frederick Leveson-Gower, younger son of the first Earl, was Member of Parliament for Derby, Stoke-upon-Trent and Bodmin.

The title of Baron Boringdon, of Boringdon in the County of Devon, was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1784 for his father John Parker, who had previously represented Bodmin and Devon in the House of Commons.

Bathurst sat as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Monmouth from 1790 to 1796, for Bristol from 1796 to 1812, for Bodmin from 1812 to 1818 and for Harwich from 1818 to 1823.

He has starred in a 2003 series of Australian television commercials for Visa, titled Unexplained ( about the raining of fish from the sky over Norfolk ) and Big Cats ( about the Beast of Bodmin Moor ).

Located near the middle of Bodmin Moor near the hamlet of Bolventor, it was built as a coaching house in 1750 as a staging post for changing horses during stagecoach runs over the moor.

The hill can be seen from the hills of Bodmin Moor on a clear day, over: the reverse is also true.

In fact by an Act in 1883 the L & SWR took over the role of making those improvements, and on 1 July 1886 the L & SWR formally absorbed the Bodmin & Wadebridge line, the previous semi-legal purchase now being authorised by Act of Parliament of 25 June 1886.

Bodmin Town Council is made up of 16 councillors who are elected to serve a term of four years.

In 1984 the Bodmin Railway Preservation Society was formed, and they held their first open day at Bodmin general two years later.

Sadly his VC is now kept locked away in a vault after it was donated to Bodmin Town Council, it has not been shown in public for many years.

In 1628 he was elected MP for Bodmin and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

Towards the end of this period granite was formed beneath the overlying rocks of Devon and Cornwall, now exposed at Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, giving rise to mineralised deposits of copper and tin.

The parish is in the Diocese of Truro and is now part of the Bodmin Team Ministry

This locomotive, now based at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, was built by the Great Western Railway at Swindon in 1916.

A Light Railway Order was granted in 1989 and the following year passenger services recommenced between Bodmin General and Bodmin Road, although by now that station had been renamed " Bodmin Parkway ".

* North Cornwall Broadcasting, formerly BC Radio and now known as NCB Radio in Bodmin, Cornwall.

3717 was withdrawn from traffic at the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in early September 2011 with serious tube leaks, and was moved to Shildon Locomotion Museum and placed on static display, and is now back in service is 2012.

The sport now takes place in St Columb Major, St Ives and Bodmin only.

The L & SWR now suspended its own passenger trains on the Bodmin & Wadebridge line from 1 November 1886 for the improvements to the line to be undertaken ; goods trains were also suspended, and Great Western Railway trains were the only ones on the line, running from their own Bodmin station.

When he had reached Bodmin on 28 July, he found that there was no chance of supplies or recruits, and he also learned that the Royalist army was at Launceston, close to his rear.

Bodmin was in the administrative North Cornwall District until local government reorganisation in 2009 abolished the District ( see also Politics of Cornwall # Cornwall Council ).

The monastery was deprived of some of its lands at the Norman Conquest but at the time of Domesday still held 18 manors, including Bodmin, Padstow and Rialton.

Bodmin was the centre of three Cornish uprisings.

Warbeck was proclaimed King Richard IV in Bodmin but Henry had little difficulty crushing the uprising.

Cornish people were still strongly attached to the Catholic religion and again a Cornish army was formed in Bodmin which marched across the border to lay siege to Exeter in Devon.

The next archdeacon was W. H. Rigg and in 1953 the assistant bishop John Wellington became additionally Archdeacon of Bodmin.

Bodmin County Lunatic Asylum was designed by John Foulston and afterwards George Wightwick.

The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.

An ornate granite drinking bowl which serves the needs of thirsty dogs at the entrance to Bodmin ’ s Priory car park was donated by Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand who lived at Tredethy.

St. Petroc's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School Athelstan Park, Bodmin, Cornwall was given this title in September 1990 after the amalgamation of St. Petroc's Infant School and St. Petroc's Junior School.

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.

In 1865 – 66 William Robert Hicks was mayor of Bodmin, when he revived the custom of Beating the bounds of the town.

The game is organised by the Rotary club of Bodmin and was last played in 2010.

In 1844 on Bodmin Moor the body of 18 year old Charlotte Dymond was discovered.