Boswednack

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Boswednack
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Boswednack Cliff
Boswednack is located in Cornwall
Boswednack
Boswednack
 Boswednack shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference SW4437
Unitary authority Cornwall
Ceremonial county Cornwall
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament St Ives
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Boswednack is a hamlet in the parish of Zennor near the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.[1] It is located along the B3306 road southwest of Zennor.

Boswednack was home to a small community of Cornish speakers during the 19th century. These included John Davey Jnr.,[2] 1812-1891, and his father, as well as Anne Berryman (1766-1854), and John Mann (1834-1914). John Mann recalled in an interview that, when a child, he and several other children always conversed in Cornish while at play together.[3][4] It is from John Davey that we know the Cranken Rhyme, probably the last recorded piece of in traditional late Cornish verse.

The hamlet contains Boswednack Manor and Treen Manor which in 1814 were both owned by William Arundell Harris.[5] Treen Manor, in the nearby hamlet of Treen is now a pub and Boswednack Manor is now run as a bed & breakfast, with a "slight Bohemian-style".[6][7]

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
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  3. Rod Lyon, Cornish – The Struggle for Survival, 2001
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