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One hundred years ago, Boscastle was the only place where a boat could pull into harbour along 40 miles of the north coast of Cornwall. Boscastle was then a busy place with a commercial port for most of the 19th century.
Boscastle was first inhabited by the Bottreaux family around 1080, [3] and the name of the village comes from Bottreaux Castle (pronounced "Botro"), [4] a 12th-century motte-and-bailey fortress, of which few remains survive.
It was once a market-town, and still has fairs on the first Thursday of May, 5 Aug., and 27 Nov. Its name is a corruption of Bottreaux-Castle; and was taken from a baronial mansion, the seat of the Norman family of De Bottreaux, which stood on what is now a green mound.
Boscastle’s heyday was over in a flash. However, its spectacular location and the lovely village of stone cottages that remained at the head of the 16th-Century harbour made Boscastle an obvious candidate for the tourist boom that engulfed Cornwall in later years.
Boscastle is an old fishing village set in a steep valley about 5 miles (8 km) to the north-east of Tintagel. Its name derives from an old Cornish word for dwelling "bos" and Bottreaux Castle, an old Norman fortress of which little now remains.
Its name is a corruption of Bottreaux-Castle, and was taken from a baronial mansion, the seat of the Norman family of De Bottreaux, which stood on what is now a green mound.
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