There is now a footpath from the site to Cadbury Castle in Somerset called Arthur's Way, A book has been produced in which the pupils of Tintagel C. P. School have collaborated with artist Michael Fairfax and writer Amanda White.

Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, Shackleton transferred to the troopship Tintagel Castle where, in March 1900, he met an army lieutenant, Cedric Longstaff, whose father Llewellyn W. Longstaff was the main financial backer of the National Antarctic Expedition, then being organised in London.

The modern-day village of Tintagel was known as Trevena () until the Post Office established ' Tintagel ' as the name in the mid 19th century ( until then Tintagel had always been the name of the headland and of the parish ).

Tintagel was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.

The parish feast traditionally celebrated at Tintagel was October 19, the feast day of St Denys, patron of the chapel at Trevena ( the proper date is October 9 but the feast has moved forward due to the calendar reform of 1752 ).

On 6 July 1979, Tintagel was briefly subject to national attention when an RAF Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft crashed into the village following an engine malfunction.

Major excavations beginning with C. A. Ralegh Radford's work in the 1930s on and around the site of the 12th century castle have revealed that Tintagel headland was the site of a high status Celtic monastery ( according to Ralegh Radford ) or a princely fortress / trading settlement dating to the 5th and 6th centuries ( according to later excavators ), in the period immediately following the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain.

Two of the Roman milestones found in Cornwall are at Tintagel ( the earlier of the two is described under Trethevy ): the later one was found in the walls of the churchyard in 1889 and is preserved in the church.

The Gift House was purchased by the Trustees of Tintagel Women's Institute in 1923 from Catherine Johns and not donated as previously thought.

Glasscock was resident at Tintagel ( in the house " Eirenicon " which he had built ) and responsible for the building of King Arthur's Hall ( an extension of Trevena House which had been John Douglas Cook's residence and had been built on the site of the former Town Hall and Market Hall ).

* Tintagel Castle Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1800 which was consecrated on 23 April 1999.

The coastline around Tintagel is significant because it is composed of old Devonian slate ; about a mile southwards from Tintagel towards Treknow the coastline was quarried extensively for this hard-wearing roofing surface.

The story is told in verse in ' Musings on Tintagel and its Heroes ' by Joseph Brown, 1897 ; the youth was buried in Tintagel Churchyard and the grave is marked by a wooden cross ( his name is given in the official Italian usage, surname first: Catanese Domenico ).

Opposite the Wharncliffe is the former Tintagel Hotel, once commonly known as Fry's Hotel: this was the terminus for coaches in the days before the railway to Camelford Station and stands on the site of the medieval chapel of St Denys.

Camelford Rugby Football Club was formed in 2008 and plays its home matches at Parc Tremain, Tintagel.

The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry.

Another version is Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, a one act play which was published in 1923.

Hardy and his first wife visited Tintagel on various occasions: she drew a sketch of the inside of the church as it was about 1867 R. S. Hawker's poem about the bells of Forrabury refers also to those of Tintagel, but more notable is his one on the Quest for the Sangraal ( first published at Exeter in 1864 ).

It is probable that the surname he chose was derived from the original name for Tintagel, though his writings are concerned mainly with Devon.

Tintagel was the venue for the Gorseth of Cornwall in 1964.

Wesleyan Methodism in Tintagel began in 1807 at Trenale and over the next sixty years gained many adherents though divided among a number of sects ( Wesleyan Methodist, Methodist Association, Bible Christian ): chapels were built at Trevena in 1838 and Bossiney in 1860.

The locomotive ' Tintagel Castle ' was built for the Great Western Railway in the 4073 series and was in service 1927-1962.

Four Norman castles were built in east Cornwall at different periods, at Launceston, Trematon, Restormel and Tintagel.

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

Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the wizard Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann and final rest in Avalon.

The so-called " Arthur stone ", discovered in 1998 among the ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall in securely dated 6th-century contexts, created a brief stir but proved irrelevant.

He incorporates Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, his magician advisor Merlin, and the story of Arthur's conception, in which Uther, disguised as his enemy Gorlois by Merlin's magic, sleeps with Gorlois's wife Igerna at Tintagel, and she conceives Arthur.

" King Arthur's Footprint " is a hollow in the rock at the highest point of Tintagel Island's southern side.

The coast at Tintagel ( looking southwest from Tintagel Island )

The beach at Bossiney Haven is close by and Trebarwith Strand, just half an hour's walk south of Tintagel, is one of Cornwall's finer beaches, boasting clear seas, golden sands, and superb surf: there is a small beach at Tintagel Haven immediately north of the castle.

' contributes: " Within easy reach of Tintagel at least 385 varieties of flowers, 30 kinds of grasses, and 16 of ferns can be found ... a ' happy hunting ground ' for botanists " and a list of thirty-nine of the rarest is given.

B. H. Ryves mentions the razorbill as numerous at Tintagel ( perhaps the largest colony in the county ) and summarises reports from earlier in the century.

In 1942 another amateur botanist recorded 262 species of flowering plants at Tintagel.

Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse is one of the versions of the Tristan and Iseult legends where some of the events are set at Tintagel.

This difficult period in Bax ’ s life led to the composition of several attractive tone-poems, including Summer Music ( 1916 ), Tintagel ( 1917 ) and November Woods ( 1914 – 1917 ).

Tintagel has also the Catholic church of St Paul the Apostle which has a thirty-thousand piece mosaic of the saint within its walls.

A third illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Tintagel is sent to a school and there learns so much she becomes the great sorceress Morgan le Fay.

The name commemorates the abbey in France which held the patronage of Tintagel during the Middle Ages ( the commune is now known as Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye ), founded by Robert of Arbrissel.

Near Dunderhole Point on Glebe Cliff stands a building from the former slate quarry: this has been used as Tintagel Youth Hostel ( managed by YHA ( England and Wales )) for many years.

Some other filming has been carried out in Tintagel, e. g. Malachi's Cove at Trebarwith.

Not incidentally, the castle has a long association with the Arthurian legends, going back to the 12th century when Geoffrey of Monmouth in his mythical account of British history, the Historia Regum Britanniae described Tintagel as the place of Arthur's conception.

Today, Tintagel Castle is a tourist destination, as it has been since the mid-19th century, and it is managed by the governmental organisation English Heritage.

However, there has been some dispute amongst archaeologists as to exactly what the site of Tintagel Island was used for in this period: in the mid twentieth century, it was typically thought that there was an early Christian monastery on the site, but " since about 1980 ... thesis ... has ... had to be abandoned ", with archaeologists now believing that it was instead an elite settlement inhabited by a powerful local warlord or even Dumnonian royalty.

Carrying on from this, he noted that the quantity of imported pottery from Tintagel was " larger than the combined total of all such pottery from all known sites this period in Britain and Ireland ; and, given that only about 5 per cent of the Island's accessible surface has been excavated or examined, the original total of imports may well have been on a scale of one or more complete shiploads-with individual ships perhaps carrying a cargo of six or seven hundred amphorae.

Such an idea has continued to be maintained by archaeologists and historians, with Charles Thomas, a specialist in Cornish history, noting in 1993 that " There simply is no independently attested connection in early Cornish folklore locating Arthur, at any age or in any capacity, at Tintagel.

It has been suggested that the rulers of Dumnonia were itinerant, stopping at various royal residences, such as Tintagel and Cadbury Castle, at different times of the year, possibly simultaneously holding lands in Brittany across the Channel.

A trailer for the film claims that historians now agree that Arthur was a real person because of alleged " recent " archaeological findings, yet there is no consensus amongst historians on Arthur's historicity and no recent archaeological find proves Arthur's existence ; the so-called " Arthur stone ", discovered in 1998 in securely dated 6th century contexts amongst the ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, created a stir but has subsequently been of little use as evidence.

The castle at Tintagel has been said to be where King Arthur was conceived ( when Uther Pendragon entered the castle in the form of Gorlois ).