Jamaica Inn, Corwall's legendary coaching house, has stood high on Bodmin Moor for over four centuries. A wide choice of food and drink and lodgings blend with Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosity and the recreation of Daphne du Maurier's study. There's a cool parrot in the bar too!
The outdoor toilets here are NOT recommended, be it winter or summer! Spidery and not desperately clean! (The last time we were here, we witnessed a fatal accident on the road below, which was not pleasant.)
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier's love affair with the County of Cornwall began in 1926 when she journeyed with her mother and sister to Fowey. The place and the people entranced her, and the wild, windswept yet romantic moorland became the inspiration for many of her works, including Rebecca (love the film), Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and The Birds. But perhaps her best know novel was Jamaica Inn, a stirring tale of romance, wrecking and murder, which was born out of a stay at the Inn in 1930. Daphne du Maurier's passing in 1989 was a great loss, both to literature and to Cornwall, but the memorial room has now ben created at the Jamaica Inn. The room is filled with memorabilia including her Sheraton writing desk, on top of which you will even see a packet of Du Maurier cigarettes, maed after her father, Sir Gerald, a well-known actor of his time, and a dish of Glacier Mints, her favourite sweets.
A thirty minute walk from the Jamaica Inn is DOZMARY POOL, the freshwater lake where King Arthur threw his Excalabur to a hand in the water, and where the traditional Cornish demon, Tregeagle, is doomed to spend eternity emptying the lake with a holed limpet shell.
A little further away is the village of TREWINT, where you will find Digory Isobell's cottage, which became the birthplace of Methodism after opening its doors to John Wesley and his followers in 1744.