Editing Tintagel (section)

==Social and cultural life==
Tintagel was the venue for the [[Gorsedh Kernow]] in 1964.

===Social and sporting activities and associations===
[[File:Former School, Tintagel - geograph.org.uk - 1384188.jpg|thumb|The Old School in Trevena in 2009]]

The Social Hall established by Mrs [[Ruth Homan]]<ref>Mrs Homan had been politically active in London, but then came to live in Trevena. (Dyer (2005), pp. 353–59)</ref> and the Old School in Fore Street have been the chief meeting places during most of the 20th century. Both the Women's Institute and the football and cricket teams are well-supported. Tintagel A.F.C. were champions of Cornwall in 1955–56 and have been in existence over a hundred years; goalkeeper [[Harry Cann]] also played for [[Plymouth Argyle F.C.]]<ref>Dyer, Peter (2005) ''Tintagel: portrait of a parish''; chapter 17: Tintagel AFC. Cambridge: Cambridge Books; pp. 451–81.</ref> Until the 1930s there were two golf courses and a few tennis courts: neither golf course reopened in the postwar period. [[Camelford RFC|Camelford Rugby Football Club]] was formed in 2008 and plays its home matches at Parc Tremain, Tintagel.<ref>Nigel Walrond. "Camelford gain spot in league structure for next season". ''Independent, The'', 25 May 2011.</ref> [[Cornish wrestling]] tournaments, for prizes, have been held in Tintagel.<ref name="WBCA06051948">''West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser'', 6 May 1948.</ref>

The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry. The choir has rehearsed weekly, and performed frequently, ever since.<ref>Dyer, Peter (2005) ''Tintagel: a portrait of a parish.'' Cambridge: Cambridge Books; pp. 397-402.</ref><ref>[http://www.tintagelmalevoicechoir.org.uk Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir]</ref>

===Literary associations===
Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] in the poem ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' and [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]]'s ''[[Tristram of Lyonesse]]'', a literary version of the Tristan and Iseult legend. [[Thomas Hardy]]'s ''The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse'', a one-act play which was published in 1923, is another version of the same legend with events set at Tintagel (the book includes an imaginary drawing of Tintagel Castle at the period).<ref>Hardy, Thomas (1923) ''The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse''. London: Macmillan; two drawings by Hardy reproduced as plates.</ref> Hardy and his first wife visited Tintagel on various occasions: she drew a sketch of the inside of the church as it was about 1867.<ref>Hardy, Emma (1961) ''Some Recollections''. London: Oxford University Press.</ref> It is very prominent in the books in Fay Sampson's ''[[Daughter of Tintagel]]'' series of Arthurian novels (later retitled ''Morgan le Fay'').

The novelist [[Dinah Craik]] visited Tintagel in 1883 and published an informative account of her journey through Cornwall the following year. [[William Howitt]]'s visit was quite different: his account is called "A day-dream at Tintagel" (in ''Visits to Remarkable Places''). Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include [[Anthony Trollope]]'s short story ''Malachi's Cove'' and the [[Charles Norris Williamson|Charles]] and [[Alice Muriel Williamson]]'s epistolary novel ''Set in Silver'' published in 1909. [[Ernest George Henham]] was a novelist resident in Devon who used the pseudonym John Trevena for many of his books; it is probable that the surname he chose was derived from the original name for Tintagel, though his writings are concerned mainly with Devon. Tintagel features prominently in [[Edith Wharton]]'s final, unfinished novel, ''[[The Buccaneers]]'', the protagonist of which, Nan St. George, meets her future husband, the Duke of Tintagel, while exploring the ruins of Tintagel Castle. Wharton styled the characters as Duke and Duchess of Tintagel, while Tintagel actually lies within the [[Duchy of Cornwall]]; in the novel, the Duke and Duchess live in a newer, fictional Tintagel Castle, built in approximately the late 18th century.

===Musical and film associations===
[[Arnold Bax]] was inspired to compose his symphonic poem [[Tintagel (Bax)|''Tintagel'']] after a visit to the village.<ref>Caple, Hilda (1963) ''Tintagel in fact and fiction: an anthology'', 2nd ed. St Ives: S. Canynge Caple</ref> [[Edward Elgar]] also composed while on a visit to Tintagel.

The film ''[[Knights of the Round Table (film)|Knights of the Round Table]]'' had some sequences filmed near Tintagel Castle with local people as extras: this was in 1953 though it was not released until 1954. Some other filming has been carried out in Tintagel, e.g. ''[[Malachi's Cove]]'' at Trebarwith. The exterior of the Camelot Castle Hotel was used to portray Dr. Seward's asylum in the 1979 film ''[[Dracula (1979 film)|Dracula]]''. The Youth Hostel doubled for the coastguard station in the 1981 BBC serial ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV series)|The Nightmare Man]]''.