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East?[edit]

"Bodmin lies in the east of Cornwall, south-west of Bodmin Moor."

Really? Surely it's pretty much in the middle (ok a little bit to the East of the middle).

maybe

"Bodmin lies near the centre of Cornwall, south-west of Bodmin Moor".

Would be better? 88.145.162.192 (talk) 22:57, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It could be described as being in the centre of Cornwall but as the part of Cornwall west of Bodmin is called mid Cornwall and Bodmin is within the former parliamentary constituency of East Cornwall and the present archdeaconry of Bodmin (which includes the eastern parts of Cornwall while the archdeaconry of Cornwall includes the western parts) it may be all right as it is.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 06:17, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also see Bodmin Hospital: before 2002 the town had the East Cornwall Hospital (a community hospital).--Johnsoniensis (talk) 00:47, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Crown Jewels stored in Bodmin Jail in World War 1?[edit]

According to Aronson (1997; see ref) the Crown Jewels were stored in Windsor Castle: he provides much detail about the gemstones being removed in case these irreplaceable elements needed to be taken hurriedly and discreetly to another site. The story about the jewels being in Bodmin Jail is recorded in a locally produced book on Bodmin (by Pat Munn) and the origin of this story is allegedly that when a guarded convoy of trucks reached the jail a Mr Tooze, a builder then working at the Jail, remarked that "You'd think they'd brought the Crown Jewels!", or words to that effect. This story came to me via Maureen Tooze, the late widow of the late Brian Tooze, the son of the aforementioned 'Mr Tooze'. Both the Toozes were stalwarts of Bodmin Town Museum. It seems that the trucks were carrying a large volume of state archives, including, reputedly, a copy of the Domesday Book. Calc-flinta (talk) 14:43, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in 1918, during World War I the trucks were indeed carrying the Domesday Book, with other material from the Public Record Office. The Crown Jewels were removed to Windsor Castle during World War II. Calc-flinta (talk) 00:03, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]