Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall, England in the early 19th century and stars Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan and Trevor Eve. It was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The production is set in Cornwall, England in the early 19th century, centered on a free house, 'Jamaica Inn' in Bodmin Moor near modern Bolventor. When her seafaring husband dies in the destruction of his sailing ship by wreckers on
Altarnun John Wesley often visited Trewint, lodging in Digory Isbell's home which is now a museum of Wesley and Methodism. (The former Altarnun Wesleyan chapel has the head of Wesley carved over the doorway by Neville Northey Burnard. This was done when Burnard was aged sixteen years and lived next door.) Altarnun features in the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier set in the parish's former coaching house by the same name. The village was also the birthplace of sculptor Neville Northey Burnard (1818–1878). It was surveyed for the Survey of English Dialects. Altarnun Altarnun () is a village and