Boscatle Gardens

Pre-dating the Parkway by 20 years, and located just below it, Boscastle Gardens sits at the top of Pennycross, off Honicknowle Lane and leading into Tintagel Crescent.

There lies the clue to the naming of many streets in the area - they are all styled after places in Cornwall. Boscastle is a small harbourside community on the north coast, about six miles from Camelford. It owes its name to a castle, of which only earthworks remain, and which belonged to the Bottereaux family who originally came from Normandy. 

An early form of the name, dating from 1302, is Boterelescastel (it was Castrum Boterel in 1284), and by 1342 had already been shortened to Botrescastell. Two centuries later a closer approximation of the contemporary name had appeared and we had Boscastel.

EH 7 November 2000