BOSCASTLE  , a small seaport and watering-

place in the Launceston parliamentary division of Cornwall, England, 5 M . N. of Camelford station on the London & South-Western railway . Pop . (civil parish of Forrabury, 1901) 329 . The village rises steeply above a very narrow cove on the north coast, 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 tradition 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 picturesque inlets such as Crackington Cove and Pentargan Cove . Inland are bare moors, diversified by narrow dales .