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
A High Wind in Jamaica (novel) High Wind in Jamaica" was included as number 71 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. The cocktail Hangman's Blood is first described in this novel. A High Wind in Jamaica (novel) A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. The book was initially titled "The Innocent Voyage" and published by Harper & Brothers in the spring of that year. Several months later Hughes renamed his novel in time for