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Beeny

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OS grid reference
  
SX1192

Country
  
England

Postcode district
  
PL35

Local time
  
Wednesday 8:08 PM

Post town
  
Boscastle

Region
  
South West

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Police
  
Devon and Cornwall

Shire county
  
Cornwall

Beeny

Weather
  
9°C, Wind W at 48 km/h, 63% Humidity

Beeny is a hamlet in north Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated on the coast two miles (3 km) north-east of Boscastle. According to the Post Office the 2011 population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of St Juliot

Contents

Map of Beeny, Boscastle, UK

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
  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

  • Henry Chidley Reynolds (1849–1925), a New Zealand farm manager, butter manufacturer and exporter, was born at Beeny.
  • References

    Beeny Wikipedia