Jamaica Inn television adaptation in 2014 starring Jessica Brown Findlay directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. In addition to its use in literature, and film, the hotel is referenced in "Jamaica Inn", a song written by Tori Amos on her album "The Beekeeper", written while she was travelling by car along the road of the Cornwall cliffs, and inspired by the legend she had heard of the inn. The inn became a Grade II listed building in 1988. The hill named "Tuber" or "Two Barrows", , is close-by. Jamaica Inn is on Bodmin Moor, near Bolventor. Brown Willy is situated to the north, while
Jamaica Inn which she had spun her popular novel "Jamaica Inn", which was adapted into a melodramatic film of the same name made by Alfred Hitchcock. Before living in the inn, she had resided in Fowey estuary, a house in Bodinnick and subsequently in Menabilly. She described the nocturnal activities of a smuggling ring based at the now celebrated inn, "portraying a hidden world as a place of tense excitement and claustrophobia of real peril and thrill." It should be noted though that in Du Maurier's novel, the Jamaica Inn is not functioning as an inn with many guests as it did