Bossiney
Sign in to saveBossiney (, meaning ''Kyni's dwelling'') is a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It forms part of the civil parish of Tintagel, and lies north-east of Tintagel village. Further north-east are the Rocky Valley and Trethevy. Until 1832 the village, with its neighbour Tintagel, returned two MPs as a Rotten Borough, for the Bossiney constituency. The beach of Bossiney Haven is located nearby.
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- Locality
- Treknow
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Tintagel
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Bossiney (, meaning ''Kyni's dwelling'') is a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It forms part of the civil parish of Tintagel, and lies north-east of Tintagel village. Further north-east are the Rocky Valley and Trethevy. Until 1832 the village, with its neighbour Tintagel, returned two MPs as a Rotten Borough, for the Bossiney constituency. The beach of Bossiney Haven is located nearby.
==Toponymy== Bossiney, which in Domesday Book was 'Botcinnii', has been explained in Cornish as: 'Bod-' ('dwelling') and 'Cini' (a man's name). The spelling varied in the past (Bossinney was at one time very common). Novelist John Galsworthy used 'Bosinney' as the surname of a character in the Forsyte Saga.