BOSCASTLE, small seaport, watering place and coastguard station, North Cornwall, England, 5m. N. of Camelford station, on the Southern railway. Pop. (civil parish of Forrabury) 775 in 1921. The village rises steeply above a very narrow cove, sheltered, but difficult of access, vessels having to be warped into it by means of hawsers. A mound on a hill above the harbour marks the site of a Norman castle. The parish church of St. Symphorian, Forrabury, also stands high, overlooking the Atlantic from Willapark Point. The tower is without bells, and the tra dition that a ship bearing a peal hither was wrecked within sight of the harbour, and that the lost bells may still be heard to toll beneath the waves, has been made famous by a ballad of the Cornish poet Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar of Moorwinstow. The coast scenery near Boscastle is severely beautiful, with abrupt cliffs fully exposed to the sea, and broken only by a few pictur esque inlets such as Crackington Cove and Pentargan Cove. In land are bare moors, diversified by narrow dales, rising to the mountain mass of Brown Willy (I ,3oof t.) .