Bolventor inn. It is bypassed by a dual carriageway section of the A30 trunk road; before the bypass was built the hamlet straddled the A30 road. Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled "Jamaica Inn". The inn that inspired the novel, Jamaica Inn, has stood beside the main road through the village since 1547. It is now a tourist attraction in its own right and dominates the hamlet. The small church (dedicated to the Holy Trinity) that lies to the east of the hamlet closed some years ago. A mile
Battle of the Inn Battle of the Inn The Battle of the Inn was fought in 913, when a Hungarian raiding army, at their return from plunder attacks against Bavaria, Swabia and Northern Burgundy, faced the combined army of Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, counts Erchanger and Burchard of Swabia, and lord Udalrich, who defeat them at Aschbach by river Inn. The skirmish at the Inn river is mentioned by the "Annales Alamannici" (continued by Hermann of Reichenau in the 11th century), the "Annales iuvavenses", the "Continuatio Treverensis chronici Reginonis" (the continuation of Regino of Prüm's "Chronicon", who wrote at Trier in 967) and the