The Beast of Bodmin, also known as The Beast of Bodmin Moor () is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.

Bodmin () is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

It is situated in the centre of the county southwest of Bodmin Moor.

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

The Chapel of St Thomas Becket is a ruin of a 14th century building in Bodmin churchyard.

The Archdeaconry of Bodmin is one of two in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and covers the eastern part of the diocese.

The Bodmin Beacon Local Nature Reserve is the hill overlooking the town.

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.

The College is home to the nationally acclaimed " Bodmin College Jazz Orchestra ", founded and run by the previous Director of Music, Adrian Evans, until 2007 and more recently, by the current Director, Ben Vincent.

Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.

A heritage railway, the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, runs from Bodmin Parkway station via Bodmin General railway station to Boscarne Junction where there is access to the Camel Trail.

The Cornish Guardian is a weekly newspaper: it is published in 7 separate editions, including the Bodmin edition.

Bodmin is the home of NCB Radio, an Internet radio station which aims to bring a dedicated station to North Cornwall.

Bodmin is also the home of Localfusion ; a community based local business network geared to provide information on Cornish news, events and social groups.

Bodmin is twinned with Bederkesa in Germany ; Grass Valley, in California, United States ; and Le Relecq-Kerhuon ( Ar Releg-Kerhuon in Brittany, France.

Bodmin Riding is a traditional annual ceremony.

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

The game is started by the Mayor of Bodmin by throwing a silver ball into a body of water known as the " Salting Pool ".

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.

Bodmin Moor is one of five granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith ( see also Geology of Cornwall ).

The church of St Petroc is one of three said to have been founded by the saint, the others being Little Petherick and Bodmin.

It rises about north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, not far from one of its tributaries rising at Dozmary Pool and Colliford Lake, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey.

The proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, and one made the remark " It would puzzle a monkey to climb that "; as the species had no existing popular name, first ' monkey puzzler ', then ' monkey puzzle ' stuck.

Liskeard is a popular local town serving a wide local area of small villages and is one of the main gateways to Bodmin Moor.

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.

Bodmin ( actually mainly Bodmin Moor ) features strongly in one episode, about the so-called Beast of Bodmin ( which is said to be a big cat ), but that's about as far east as Wycliffe ever gets.

An archdeaconry is a territorial division of a diocese ; these vary in number according to the size of the diocese and in a few cases an assistant bishop in a diocese will also fulfil the duties of a archdeacon in part of it, as in the Archdeaconry of Bodmin 1953-62 ( the Archdeaconry of Bodmin is one of two archdeaconries in the Diocese of Truro ).

** One train per hour calling at Reading,,,, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Plymouth, with one train every two hours continuing to, Bodmin Parkway, Par, St Austell, Truro, Redruth, Camborne, Hayle, St Erth and.

In 1645 during the English Civil War, Sir Thomas Fairfax's troops were advancing from Bodmin towards Truro ; on 7 March the army held a rendezvous, and halted one night, four miles ( 6 km ) beyond Bodmin.

He continued to represent the borough, and Bodmin into which it was merged by the Reform Act of 1885, until 1900, when his attitude towards the South African War, he was one of the foremost of the so-called Pro-Boer Party, compelled his retirement.

A second line was provided from Wadebridge Junction to Wadebridge, one line leading from the North Cornwall line and the other from the Bodmin line.

In its first battle its armour was punctured by Crusher, but Beast of Bodmin remained mobile and removed one of Crusher's tracks, leaving its opponent unable to move.

It is situated between the towns of Bodmin and Liskeard.

Other towns in the district included Bude, Bodmin, Launceston, Padstow, and Camelford.

The Cornish coinage towns included at various times: Penzance, Truro, Helston, St Austell, Bodmin ( probably ), Liskeard and Lostwithiel.

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

Bodmin lies in the centre of Cornwall, south-west of Bodmin Moor.

The Roman Catholic parish of Bodmin includes a large area of North Cornwall and there are churches also at Wadebridge, Padstow and Tintagel.

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.

Bus and coach services connect Bodmin with other districts of Cornwall and Devon.

Bodmin Moor () is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Bolventor () is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

The Cheesewring, a granite Tor ( rock formation ) | tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

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.

Hawk's Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

* Hawk's Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall

Bligh was born in Tinten Manor in St Tudy near Bodmin, Cornwall, to Francis Bligh and his wife Jane.

Cornwall and West Devon's landscape is of rocky coastline and high moorland, notably at Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor National Park.

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 ).