Bodinnick

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Bodinnick lies in the Lanteglos-by-Fowey parish on the banks of the Fowey River. It was important as a ferry terminal for people travelling from Fowey.{{cite book|author1=Alan Thacker|author2=Richard Sharpe|title=Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8awpnzSjLC8C&pg=PA356|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-820394-0|page=356}} There is an "Old Ferry Inn" close to the bank of the river here. There is a camp site about {{convert|1|mi|km}} from the ferry crossing.{{cite book|author=Robert Andrews|title=Rough guide to England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXrZmU-2TsoC&pg=PA491|date=April 2004|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-249-1|page=491}} A {{convert|4|mi|km}} walk from the ferry crossing at Bodinnick goes through a scenic route called the "Hall Walk" along the Polruan River. A ferry services from here also connects to Fowey.{{cite book|author1=Oliver Berry|author2=Belinda Dixon|title=Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqpP0B-Hg7IC&pg=PA269|year=2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74104-873-5|page=269}} Hall Walk is along the cliff which is halfway up the Bodinnick hill which winds around the Pont Creek.{{cite book|author=Margaret Forster|title=Daphne du Maurier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KRaAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Chatto & Windus|isbn=9780701136994}} A creek, which is about {{convert|0.3|mi|km}} in length joins an estuary at Pelene Point near about {{convert|0.25|mi|km}} from Bodinnick. At the head of this creek there is chapel dedicated to St. Wyllow. Two miles in land to the north up another creek, on its north bank, off Bodinnick, there is the "Cell of Black Monks" from Montacute dedicated to Sa Syricus and Juliette. Hermit St. Mancus's festival is held here. St. Wyllow was a contemporary of St. Mancus and Meubred and his tomb lies one mile away from Bodinnick, where a festival is also held in his honour. There was also a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist here.{{cite book|author=Samuel Lysons|title=Magna Britannia: being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. Containing Cornwall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucU_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA185|year=1814|publisher=Cadell|page=185}}

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In August 1644, the king visited Cornwall and an attempt was made on his life with a cannonball, it missed, but was reported to have killed a fisherman nearby.{{cite book|last=Allen|first=John|title=History of the Borough of Liskeard and its vicinity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_4VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84|year=1856|publisher=Cash|page=84}} During the late 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Bodinnick and the nearby villages of Fowey and Polruan were home to wealthy shipping merchants and master mariners.{{cite book|author=Lindy Woodhead|title=War paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden : their lives, their times, their rivalry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JmICH8OBLrcC&pg=PT59|year=2003|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=978-0-471-48778-4|page=59}} The well known families who lived at the time were the Slades, the Salts and the Tadds. These families, for several generations, were involved in trading and transporting local China clay or imported coal with their schooners through the local ferry harbours.

In the 1680s, John Gandy of Exeter supplied cloth to Philippa Randle of Bodinnick, sending consignments both by barge along the coast and across the fields by pack horse.{{cite book|last1=Overton|first1=Mark|last2=Dean|first2=Darron|last3=Whittle|first3=Jane|title=Production and Consumption in English Households 1600–1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVKeJZrXidMC&pg=PA117|year=2004|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=978-0-203-64477-5|page=117}} A shoe maker was also known to live in the village in the 1830s.{{cite book|last=Payton|first=Philip|title=The Cornish overseas: a history of Cornwall's 'great emigration'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Uc4gIhnSUkC&pg=PA85|year=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd.|isbn=978-1-904880-04-2|page=85}}

Daphne du Maurier wrote many novels while living at "Ferryside" (a house that is stated to be still owned by her family) on the river bank at Bodinnick on the eastern shore, opposite to Fowey; she moved to Menabilly later after the publication of her 1938 novel Rebecca.{{cite book|author=Robert Andrews|title=The Rough Guide to Devon & Cornwall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yoll2mMLp1QC&pg=RA1-PA207|year=2004|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-312-2|page=15}}{{cite book|last=Else|first=David|title=Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zhJGpvZwhSIC&pg=PA414|year=2003|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74059-338-0|page=414}}{{cite book|last=Forster|first=Margaret|title=Daphne du Maurier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KRaAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Chatto & Windus|page=50|isbn=9780701136994}} It was also the home of her sister Angela du Maurier for most of her life.

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Hypericum maculatum is seen along the roadside near the ferry crossing. A rare plant known as the Allium ursinum grows during spring as a part of hedges. Centranthus ruber plants are also seen on the old walls.{{cite book|author1=George Luxford|author2=Edward Newman|title=The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GtMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA942|year=1845|publisher=John van Voorst|page=942}}

A ferry service operates between Fowey and Bodinnick and gives its name to The Old Ferry Inn,{{cite web|url=http://www.oldferryinn.co.uk|title=The Old Ferry Inn |publisher= Old Ferry Inn website}} a 400-year-old building on the steep lane down to the riverside.{{cite book|first1=Sir Arthur|last1=Quiller-Couch|title=Memories and Opinions: An Unfinished Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EngOOEiAIkC&pg=PA91|year=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-73674-9|page=91}} A {{convert|4|mi|km}} walk along the hill tops connects Bodinnick to Polruan in the south.{{cite book|last1=Berry|first1=Oliver|last2=Dixon|first2=Belinda|title=Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqpP0B-Hg7IC&pg=PA269|year=2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74104-873-5|page=269}}

In Bodinnick Hall Place is a Methodist chapel now in use as a shippen. Features of interest are the north doorway and a western bell turret.Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 40

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• [http://www.lanteglosbyfowey.org.uk/ Parish Council Website]

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