A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BOSSINEY, a village in Tintagel parish, Cornwall, in a bleak tract, 4½ miles NNW of Camelford. Pop., 87. It was once a market-town; and it sent two members to parliament from the time of Henry III. till disfranchised by the act of 1832. It consists of mean cottages; and stands round a large barrow, on which the writ of election used to be read. Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Cottington, and other distinguished men represented it in parliament. A singular cove, small, and murky, called Bossiney Hole, is under the cliffs on the adjacent coast.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Tintagel CP/AP Cornwall AncC |
| Place: | Bossiney |
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