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
Daphne du Maurier of the "nation's best-loved novel" on the BBC's 2003 survey The Big Read. Other significant works include "The Scapegoat", "The House on the Strand", and "The King's General". The last is set in the middle of the first and second English Civil Wars, written from the Royalist perspective of Du Maurier's adopted Cornwall. Several of Du Maurier's other novels have also been adapted for the screen, including "Jamaica Inn", "Frenchman's Creek", "Hungry Hill", and "My Cousin Rachel". The Hitchcock film "The Birds" (1963) is based on a treatment of one of her short stories, as is the film "Don't Look