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.

Bodmin is one of the oldest towns in Cornwall, and the only large Cornish settlement recorded in the Domesday Book of the late 11th century.

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 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 ".

In 1966 Finn was also remembered at his home town of Bodmin when an estate was named " Finn VC Estate " in his honour.

Leading the life of a would-be recluse, he received prolonged tuition from the ' New Ruralist ' artist Graham Ovenden, at the latter's home on the edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.

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

* Bodmin Community Radio, a community radio station based in Bodmin, Cornwall.

Bodmin General railway station

The section of the Fowey Valley between Doublebois and Bodmin Parkway railway station is known as the Glynn Valley ( from Glynn House, Cardinham ).

* Padstow to Bodmin Parkway railway station

It has an interchange with the national rail network at Bodmin Parkway railway station, the southern terminus of the line.

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 ".

Upon reaching Bodmin General station, the headquarters of the railway, trains reverse to take the line to Boscarne Junction.

The Caradon Hill transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility on Bodmin Moor in the civil parish of Linkinhorne, located on Caradon Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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An earlier proposal had been made to make a broad gauge line from the Cornwall Railway near Bodmin Road station to the Bodmin & Wadebridge station at Bodmin, with interchange platforms for the necessary transhipment from broad to standard gauge wagons there.

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.

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.

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.

The next occurrence of the Bodmin Hurl will be following the next beating of the bounds, which is unlikely to take place until 2015.

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 ).

Though very near the coast the hill of Condolden ( or Kingsdown ) is among the very few areas in Cornwall outside Bodmin Moor which exceeds 1000 feet.

Local traffic had to merge with traffic from the A38 trunk road, which runs from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire ( approximately 300 miles ( 490 km )).

The River Camel rises on Hendraburnick Down ( UK Grid Reference SX135875 ) on the edge of Bodmin Moor, an area which forms part of the granite spine of Cornwall.

The town can be accessed by the A390 which by-passes the town to the south on its way from Liskeard to Truro, or by the A391 from Bodmin, or by the A3058 from Newquay.

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.

The town is the northern terminus of the A38, which runs from Bodmin in Cornwall and is the longest ' A ' road entirely within England.

Northfield is centred around the main A38 road, which runs southwards from Birmingham and leads to Bromsgrove, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Exeter and eventually Bodmin in Cornwall.

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.

Bodmin is connected by road with St Austell, which is on the London-Penzance line.