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Bodmin was in the administrative North Cornwall District until local government reorganisation in 2009 abolished the District ( see also Politics of Cornwall # Cornwall Council ).
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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.
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.
In 1881 the Roman Catholic mass was celebrated in Bodmin for the first time since 1539.
The next archdeacon was W. H. Rigg and in 1953 the assistant bishop John Wellington became additionally Archdeacon of Bodmin.
Bodmin Gaol, operational for over 150 years but now a semi-ruin, was built in the late 18th century, and was the first British prison to hold prisoners in separate cells ( though often up to 10 at a time ) rather than communally.
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.
Local labourer Matthew Weeks was accused of the murder and at noon on 12 August 1844 he was led from Bodmin Gaol and hanged.
Bodmin and North
The Roman Catholic parish of Bodmin includes a large area of North Cornwall and there are churches also at Wadebridge, Padstow and Tintagel.
Bodmin is the home of NCB Radio, an Internet radio station which aims to bring a dedicated station to North Cornwall.
It rises on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall.
* North Cornwall Broadcasting, formerly BC Radio and now known as NCB Radio in Bodmin, Cornwall.
The Bodmin & Wadebridge System in 1895Construction of the North Cornwall line from Halwill was much delayed due to difficulty in raising the necessary capital, and after several extensions of time it opened to a special goods train on 31 May 1895 and fully on 1 June 1895.
The North Cornwall converged with the Bodmin & Wadebridge line at Wadebridge Junction, about a mile east of Wadebridge itself.
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.
The Bodmin station was renamed Bodmin North on 26 September 1949 ; the GWR station was renamed Bodmin General.
In 1966 the North Cornwall line between Halwill and Wadebridge was closed, and for a short period the Bodmin and Wadebridge trains were the only connection to Padstow.
Since then it has visited the National Railway Museum, the North Norfolk Railway, the Dean Forest Railway, the Spa Valley Railway and the Bodmin and Wenford Railway.
Bodmin and Cornwall
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.
Bodmin lies in the centre of Cornwall, south-west of Bodmin Moor.
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.
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.
Bodmin Moor is one of five granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith ( see also Geology of Cornwall ).
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 ).
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