We could not match "BOSCASTLE" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 16 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "BOSCASTLE" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BOSCASTLE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Boscastle		Boscastle , coast vil. and seat, Minster and Forrabury pars., W. Cornwall, 5 miles N. of Camelford and 20 miles W. of Launceston	Bartholomew
  BOSCASTLE		BOSCASTLE , a village and a subdistrict in Camelford district, Cornwall. The village is in the parishes of Minster and Forrabury	Imperial
  CAMELFORD		Boscastle, containing the parishes of Minster, Forrabury, Trevalga, Tintagel, Otterham, Lesnewth, and St. Juliot. Acres, 51, 847 Poor-rates in 1866, £5,149. Pop. in 1861, 7,774. Houses	Imperial
  Forrabury		hamlet, E. Cornwall, 5 miles NW. of Camelford, 508 ac., pop. 304; the par. contains part of the vil. of Boscastle.	Bartholomew
  FORRABURY, or Fotherbury		Boscastle, which has a post office under Camelford. Acres, 508. Real property, with Minster, £4, 123. Rated property of F. alone	Imperial
  GENNYS (St.)		Boscastle, Cornwall. Acres, 5, 516; of which 30 are water. Real property, £2, 501. Pop., 572. Houses, 122. The property	Imperial
  Growar		Growar , small island, opposite Boscastle, Cornwall, 6 miles N. of Camelford.	Bartholomew
  High Cliff		High Cliff , on W. coast of Cornwall, 2½ miles NE. of Boscastle, alt. 708 ft.	Bartholomew
  HIGH-CLIFF		miles NE of Boscastle. It has an elevation of 735 feet, and commands a fine view of the coast and the channel.	Imperial
  LESNEWTH		Boscastle, Cornwall. Acres, 2,028. Real property, £1,167. Pop., 114. Houses, 23. The manor belongs to Lord Churston	Imperial
  Lye Rock		Lye Rock , off W. coast of Cornwall, between Boscastle and Tintagel Head.	Bartholomew
  Meachard		Meachard , island, off Boscastle Harbour, Cornwall.	Bartholomew
  Minster		miles N. of Camelford, 3222 ac., pop. 451; contains part of Boscastle vil., and has vestiges of an old priory.	Bartholomew
  MINSTER		Boscastle, which has a post office under Camelford. Acres, 3,222. Real property, with Forrabury, £4,123. Rated property	Imperial
  Rocky Valley, The		Rocky Valley, The , picturesque glen, Cornwall, between Boscastle and Tintagel Head.	Bartholomew
  TREVALGA		Boscastle, Cornwall. Acres, 1,299. Real property, £1,197. Pop., 158. Houses, 30. The manor belongs to the Duke	Imperial

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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