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 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 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 ".

Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged panther-like cats of the same region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor.

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

The Beast of Bodmin has been reported many times but never identified with certainty.

Either as a result of this attack or later the monks moved inland to Bodmin taking with them the relics of St Petroc.

Centrally mounted engines powering wing-mounted airscrews was a concept that was explored with the large four-engined Bristol Tramp, the twin-engined Boulton Paul Bodmin and the next design to emerge from Parnall, the single-engined Possum.

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 )).

For example, the A38 road, a trunk road running from Bodmin to Mansfield starts in Zone 3, and is therefore numbered with an A3x number, even though it passes through Zones 4 and 5 to end in Zone 6.

Barnstaple ( 35 miles north east ), Bodmin Parkway ( 32 miles south ) and Gunnislake ( 32 miles sse ) are the nearest National Rail stations with regular services.

He served as sacristan at Glastonbury Abbey but later lived in Cornwall, at first alone, then with a growing group of other monks near Bodmin Moor.

The Cornish Hedge Research and Education Group ( CHREG ) supports the development of traditional skills and works with Cornwall Council, FWAG ( Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group ), Stone Academy Bodmin, Cornwall AONB, Country Trust and professional hedgers to ensure the future of Cornish Hedges in the landscape.

The road starts on the eastern side of Bodmin at a junction with the A30 before traversing the edge of the town to meet the A30 again.

Liskeard is situated approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) west of Plymouth, west of the River Tamar and the border with Devon, and 12 miles ( 20 km ) east of Bodmin.

It rises on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall.

The catchment area of the River Camel covers a total of 413 km² on the western side of Bodmin Moor, and is mainly Devonian slates and granite, with some shales and sandstones.

It is situated on the south coast approximately south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon at Saltash.

England abounds with folklore, in all forms, from such obvious manifestations as the traditional Robin Hood tales, the Brythonic-inspired Arthurian legend, the poetry tale of Beowulf, to contemporary urban legends and facets of cryptozoology such as the Beast of 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.

There he was later to be captured and taken to London with Wynslade, who was caught at Bodmin.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by a merger of the boroughs of Bodmin and Launceston, along with Bude-Stratton urban district and Camelford Rural District, Launceston Rural District, Stratton Rural District and Wadebridge and Padstow Rural District.

In 1872 Lord Robartes MP of Lanhydrock, Bodmin, was listed in the top ten land holdings in Cornwall with an estate of or 2. 93 % of Cornwall.

** 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.

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

There are a further three primary ( or elementary ) schools within Bodmin ; Berrycoombe School in the north west corner of the town, St. Mary's Catholic Primary School and Robartes Primary Junior School, both situated west of the town centre.

* September 7 – Second Cornish Uprising in England: Perkin Warbeck lands near Land's End ; on September 10 he is proclaimed as King in Bodmin.

There were important monasteries at Bodmin and Glastonbury ; and also Exeter where 5th century burials discovered near the cathedral probably represent the cemetery of the foundation attended by St. Boniface ( although whether this was Saxon or Brythonic is somewhat controversial ).

Born as Margaret Ann Brown, the daughter of a Royal Air Force officer, in Inverness, she attended Nairn Academy ; Bodmin County Grammar School ( closed in 1973 ); Bushey Grammar School and the Polytechnic of South Bank, London, where she was awarded a BSc in Sociology in 1967, and was elected vice president of the students ' union ).

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 ).

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.

The Bodmin manumissions, two to three generations later, show that the ruling class of Cornwall quickly became " Anglicised ", most owners of slaves having Anglo-Saxon names ( not necessarily because they were of English descent ; some at least were Cornish nobles who changed their names ).

The passenger service only ever operated between Bodmin and Wadebridge, and never on the branches ; there were no intermediate stations, but boarding at any intermediate place was semi-officially permitted.

Several nominally independent companies sought support and parliamentary powers for lines connecting with the Bodmin & Wadebridge ; among these was the Launceston, Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, which obtained its powers in 1864 but never succeeded in using them.

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.

The Bodmin & Wadebridge system in 1923Traffic on the line remained very light, and the L & SWR installed class H13 steam railcars on the passenger trains ; they seated 40 passengers.

The Bodmin station was renamed Bodmin North on 26 September 1949 ; the GWR station was renamed Bodmin General.

A new platform was opened on 15 June called Boscarne Exchange Platform ; trains from Bodmin General to Wadebridge stopped here, and a diesel railbus operated a shuttle connection between there and the original Bodmin & Wadebridge station.