Beeny

Beeny

Beeny Cliff
Beeny
 Beeny shown within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX1192
Shire countyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town BOSCASTLE
Postcode district PL35
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
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Coordinates: 50°42′03″N 4°40′13″W / 50.70075°N 4.67022°W / 50.70075; -4.67022

Beeny is a hamlet in north Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated on the coast two miles (3 km) north-east of Boscastle.[1]

Literary allusions

In "A Death-Day Recalled," collected in Satires of Circumstance (1914), Thomas Hardy wrote:

Beeny did not quiver,
  Juliot grew not gray,
Thin Vallency's river
  Held its wonted way.
Bos seemed not to utter
  Dimmest note of dirge,
Targan mouth a mutter[2]
  To its creamy surge.

Yet though these, unheeding,
  Listless, passed the hour
Of her spirit's speeding,
  She had, in her flower,
Sought and loved the places
  Much and often pined
For their lonely faces
  When in towns confined.

Why did not Vallency
  In his purl deplore
One whose haunts were whence he
  Drew his limpid store?
Why did Bos not thunder,
  Targan apprehend
Body and Breath were sunder
  Of their former friend?

Notable residents

The Old Manor House restaurant

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 Bude & Clovelly ISBN 978-0-319-23145-6
  2. I.e. Pentargon

External links

Media related to Beeny at Wikimedia Commons

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