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
The Trout Inn The Trout Inn The Trout Inn (often simply referred to as The Trout) is a historic public house in Lower Wolvercote north of Oxford, close to Godstow Bridge, directly by the River Thames. The pub features in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited" and in Colin Dexter's "Inspector Morse" series, which was written and filmed in and around Oxford. For example, it appears in the TV episode "The Wolvercote Tongue". An alternative reality version also appears in Philip Pullman's "La Belle Sauvage". It also appears in the 1997 film version of "The Saint". In 2001 the Trout Inn was visited by