Editing Bodmin (section)

=== Institutions ===
[[File:Shire Hall, Bodmin - geograph.org.uk - 50323.jpg|The [[Shire Hall, Bodmin|Shire Hall]]|thumb]]
[[File:Berry Tower - geograph.org.uk - 754952.jpg|thumb|Berry Tower, all that remains of the Chapel of the Holy Rood]]
[[File:Bodmin Library - geograph.org.uk - 754652.jpg|thumb|The former Bodmin Library, now an arts and community centre called intoBodmin]]

Other buildings of interest include the former [[Shire Hall, Bodmin|Shire Hall]], now a tourist information centre, and [[Victoria Barracks, Bodmin|Victoria Barracks]], formerly depot of the now defunct [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]] and now the site of the regimental museum. It includes the history of the regiment from 1702, plus a military library. The original barracks house the regimental museum which was founded in 1925. There is a fine collection of small arms and machine guns, plus maps, uniforms and paintings on display. The [[Honey Street drill hall, Bodmin|Honey Street drill hall]] was the mobilisation point for reservists being deployed to serve on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drillhalls.org/Counties/Cornwall/TownBodmin.htm|title=Bodmin|publisher=The Drill Hall Project|access-date=27 August 2017}}</ref>

'''Bodmin County Lunatic Asylum''', later known as [[St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin|St Lawrence's Hospital]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Bodmin/Bodmin.shtml |title=Bodmin workhouse, later St Lawrence's Hospital (Illustration) |publisher=Peter Higginbotham's Workhouse website|access-date=16 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629100413/http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Bodmin/Bodmin.shtml |archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm#South%20West%20England |title=Middlesex University index of County Asylums|publisher=Mdx.ac.uk|access-date=16 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527134421/http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_ta.HTM |archive-date=27 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.art.deaco.btinternet.co.uk/index.html|title= History of St Lawrence's Hospital, after its closure|publisher=Art.deaco.btinternet.co.uk|access-date=29 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010235925/http://www.art.deaco.btinternet.co.uk/index.html |archive-date=10 October 2012}}</ref> was designed by [[John Foulston]]. The humorist, [[William Robert Hicks]], was domestic superintendent in the mid-19th century.<ref>{{cite web | last =Boase | first =G. C.| author-link = George Clement Boase|title =Hicks, William Robert (1808–1868), asylum superintendent and humorist | work = [[Dictionary of National Biography]] Vol. XXVI | publisher =Smith, Elder & Co. | year = 1891 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=13219 | access-date = 2007-12-23}}</ref>

'''Walker Lines''', named after Lieutenant-General [[Harold Walker (British Army officer)|Harold Walker]], was a Second World War camp built as an extension to the DCLI Barracks. It was used to harbour men evacuated from [[Dunkirk]] and later to house troops for the [[D-Day]] landings. In the 1950s it was the site of the [[JSSL]]. The site is now an [[industrial estate]] but still known as 'Walker Lines'.

'''Bosvenna House''', an Edwardian manor house, was formerly Bosvenna Hotel, and the home of the [[Royal British Legion|Royal British Legion Club]], but has since become a private residence.

There is a sizable single storey Masonic Hall in St Nicholas Street, which is home to no less than eight Masonic bodies.<ref>Cornwall Masonic Yearbook 2019/20</ref>