Tintagel
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 Fore Street, Trevena, in 2009 | |
  Tintagel Location within Cornwall | |
| Population | 1,782 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Bossiney and Knightsmill) |
| OS grid reference | SX057884 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | TINTAGEL |
| Postcode district | PL34 |
| Dialling code | 01840 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Tintagel (/tɪnˈtædʒəl/) or Trevena (Cornish: Tre war Venydh,[1] meaning Village on a Mountain) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surrounding King Arthur and in recent times have become a tourist attraction.[2] It was claimed by Geoffrey of Monmouth that the castle was the place of Arthur's conception.
Tintagel is used by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse, and Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, is a play published in 1923, which perpetuates the same legend.
Tourists can visit King Arthur's Great Halls at Trevena which is a substantial building of the early 1930s. The Artognou stone, which was discovered in 1998, has added to the legend, although historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur.
- ^ "List of Place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel" (PDF). Cornish Language Partnership. May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ Dyer (2005); p. 9