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BOSCASTLE , a small seaport and watering-See also:place in the See also:Launceston See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cornwall, See also:England, 5 M. N. of See also:Camelford station on the See also:London & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. (See also:civil See also:parish of Forrabury, 1901) 329. The See also:village rises steeply above a very narrow See also:cove on the See also:north See also:coast, sheltered, but difficult of See also:access, vessels having to be warped into it by means of hawsers. A See also:mound on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill above the See also:harbour marks the site of a See also:Norman See also:castle. The parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Symphorian, Forrabury, also stands high, overlooking the See also:Atlantic from Willapark Point. The See also:tower is without bells, and the tradition that a See also:ship bearing a peal hither was wrecked within sight of the harbour, and that the lost bells may still be heard to See also:toll beneath the waves, has been made famous by a ballad of the Cornish poet See also:Robert See also:Stephen See also:Hawker, See also:vicar of Moorwinstow. The coast scenery near Boscastle is severely beautiful, with abrupt cliffs fully exposed to the See also:sea, and broken only by a few picturesque inlets such as Crackington Cove and Pentargan Cove. Inland are See also:bare See also:moors, diversified by narrow dales.
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