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 ).

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.

Tintagel Primary School was built at Treven in 1914 to replace the old church school ( founded 1874 ) and has been extended since.

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.

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.

The crew were able to get onto the rock and apart from a youth of 14 were saved by four men ( three of these from Tintagel: one of them Charles Hambly received a Vellum testimonial and three medals for bravery afterwards ).

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.

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.

Tintagel Castle is one of the landholdings of the Duke of Cornwall, Prince Charles, who refuses to reveal the date or circumstances under which the castle was transferred to the care of English Heritage.

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.

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 ( the book included an imaginary drawing of the castle at the period ).

Heysham also contains one of only three sites in Britain and Ireland that contain a pre-roman labyrinth, the others being located at Tintagel, Cornwall and Hollywood, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Only a few Roman milestones have been found in Cornwall ; two have been recovered from around Tintagel in the north ( detailed below ), one at Mynheer Farm ( near the hillfort at Carn Brea ), and another two close to St Michael's Mount one of which is preserved at Breage Parish Church.

It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon.

As Duchy of Cornwall property the manor of Tintagel was among those seized by the Commonwealth government of the 1650s ( returning to the Duchy in 1660 ).

A possible reason for the introduction of the PII certificate, given by the Stannary Parliament, was that the Duchy of Cornwall refuses to reveal the circumstances under which it transferred several of its properties ( including Tintagel Castle ) to the care of English Heritage.

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

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.

File: Rocky Valley labyrinth Tintagel. jpg | Seven-ring classical labyrinth of unknown age in Rocky Valley near Tintagel, Cornwall, UK.

Tintagel (; ; originally Trevena from ) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The novelist Dinah Maria Craik visited Tintagel in 1883 and published an informative account of her journey through Cornwall the following year.

The Earls and Dukes of Cornwall ( to whom the castle belonged ) were never resident at Tintagel though a few of them are known to have visited.

* Online Catalogue for Tintagel, Cornwall Record Office

* Tintagel Castle, Tintagel, Cornwall.

* Tintagel Castle in Cornwall ( also said to be Arthur's birthplace by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Tintagel Castle () is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.

" Archaeologists know of five milestones or route-markers that have been found in Cornwall and which would have been erected in the Romano-British period to chart the roads, and two of these have been found in the vicinity of Tintagel, indicating the likelihood that a road passed through the locality.

In 1225 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, swapped the land of Merthen ( originally part of the manor of Winnianton ) with Gervase de Tintagel for Tintagel Castle.