Editing Tintagel (section)

==History and government==
[[File:Tintagel-visitor-centre.jpg|thumb|Borough seal (Tintagel Visitor Centre, Bossiney Road)]]

A small cliff castle was established at [[Bossiney]] in [[Norman conquest of England|Norman]] times, probably before the Domesday Survey of 1086. In ''[[Domesday Book]]'', there are certainly two manors in this parish (for a probable third see [[Trethevy]]).

[[File:Fields by Downrow - geograph.org.uk - 742006.jpg|thumb|left|View of [[Treknow]], Tintagel (Trevena), and [[Bossiney]] from [[Condolden|King's Down]]|alt=]]

Bossiney and Trevena were established as a borough in 1253 by [[Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall]]. Bossiney (which included Trevena) was held from the [[Bodmin Priory|monks of Bodmin]] by the Earl of Cornwall: there was land for six ploughs and {{convert|30|acre|m2}} of pasture (before the Conquest it had been held from the monks by Alfwy). The monks of Bodmin held [[Treknow]] themselves: there was land for eight ploughs and {{convert|100|acre|m2}} of pasture.<ref>Thorn, C., et al. (eds.) (1979) ''Cornwall''. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 4,13</ref> Tintagel was one of the 17 [[Antiqua maneria]] of the Duchy of Cornwall.<ref>Hatcher, John (1970) ''Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall 1300–1500''. Cambridge University Press {{ISBN|0-521-08550-0}}</ref> The parish feast traditionally celebrated at Tintagel was 19 October, the feast day of [[Saint Denis of Paris|St Denys]], patron of the chapel at Trevena (the proper date is 9 October but the feast has moved forward due to the calendar reform of 1752). The market hall and the site of the fair were near the chapel. "Tintagel (Trevena) declined towards the end of the medieval period for it was ill-equipped to take up fishing as an alternative occupation. Paradoxically it now enjoys a temporary prosperity as a result of tourist interest in the castle which was converted so romantically by Geoffrey of Monmouth into an ancient residence of King Arthur." (W. G. V. Balchin 1954)<ref>Balchin, W. G. V. (1954) ''Cornwall: an illustrated essay on the history of the landscape''. London: Hodder and Stoughton; p. 80</ref>

The [[Tithe map#Tithe Commutation Act 1836|Tithe Commissioners]]' survey was carried out in 1840–41 and recorded the area of the parish as {{convert|4280|acre|km2}}, of which arable and pasture land was {{convert|3200|acre|km2}}. The land owned by the largest landowner, Lord Wharncliffe, amounted to {{convert|1814|acre|km2}}, and there was {{convert|125|acre|km2}} of glebe land. Precise details of the size and tenure of every piece of land are given.<ref>Canner (1982); pp. 74–75.</ref><ref>Assessionable Manors Commission. ''Award for the Manor of Tintagel''. 1846</ref> Sidney Madge did research into the history of the parish and compiled a manuscript ''Records of Tintagel'' in 1945.<ref>5 vols.; 1867 pp. British Library 10359.e.1.</ref> The villages of Trevena and Bossiney were until the early 20th century separated by fields along Bossiney Road.

[[File:Lye Rock (4962).jpg|thumb|Lye Rock near [[Bossiney]], site of the ''Iota'' shipwreck|alt=]]

[[Trebarwith]] was the scene of the shipwreck of the ''Sarah Anderson'' in 1886 (all on board perished),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/15288.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721100317/http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/15288.asp|url-status=usurped|archive-date=21 July 2011|title=Wreck Report for 'Sarah Anderson', 1887 - PortCities Southampton|access-date=20 October 2016}}</ref> but the most famous of the wrecks happened on 20 December 1893, at Lye Rock when the barque ''Iota'' was driven against the cliff. The crew were able to get onto the rock and apart from a youth of 14 were saved by four men (three of these from Tintagel: one of them, [[Long Grass Quarry#Charles Hambly|Charles Hambly]], received a Vellum testimonial and three medals for bravery afterwards). The story is told in verse in ''Musings on Tintagel and its Heroes'' by Joseph Brown, 1897; the youth was buried in Tintagel Churchyard and the grave is marked by a wooden cross (his name is given in the bureaucratic Italian usage, surname first: Catanese Domenico).<ref>Canner, A. C. (1982) ''The Parish of Tintagel''; pp. 87–88</ref><ref>Taylor, William (1930) ''History of Tintagel''; pp. 58–59.</ref> On 6 July 1979, Tintagel was briefly subject to national attention when an [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] [[Hawker Hunter]] fighter aircraft crashed into the village following an engine malfunction; the unusual incident caused significant damage and consternation, but no deaths.

The [[Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)|borough of Bossiney]] was given the right to send two [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MPs]] to Parliament c. 1552 and continued to do so until 1832 when its status as a borough was abolished. For the purposes of local government, Tintagel is currently a [[civil parish]] and councillors are elected every four years. The principal local authority in this area is [[Cornwall Council]], but until March 2009 the parish was in the area of [[North Cornwall]] District Council. Parish council minutes can be found on Tintagel Web. From 1894 to 1974, the parish was in the [[Camelford Rural District]].