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 Spy Who Loved Me (novel) Bond, but also by the police officer involved. Benson argues that this runs counter to another theme in the novel, which had also appeared in a number of other Bond books including "Goldfinger": the concept of Bond as Saint George against the dragon. In this Black agrees, who sees "The Spy Who Loved Me" as being "an account of the vulnerable under challenge, of the manipulative nature of individuals and of the possibility of being trapped by evil". "The Spy Who Loved Me" was written in Jamaica at Fleming's Goldeneye estate in January and February 1961, and was the shortest