The only natural harbour for 20 miles along the North Cornwall Coast. For a hundred years the village was a thriving port, but with the coming of the railways, whilst ending the isolation of North Cornwall, it declined as a trading port. Boscastle village, complete with cottages with higgledy-piggledy roofs, clings to the side of the beautiful Valency valley.
Explore the delightful High Street, many of whose properties have stone and slate porches, and large slate flagstones leading up the garden path. Craft shops, a Witches Museum, a disused watermill, even a bakers and fruit shop. Old inns such as the Cobweb, and the Napoleon, both full of character.
At the harbour entrance is the 'Boscastle Blowhole', audible just after low water under certain sea conditions, as water surges in. In summer divers sometimes explore its murky depths. Please take care near moorings, fishing gear and unfenced drops. The slate bedrock of the harbour paths can be particularly slippery when wet.
The challenge of this cache is to determine in which year this graffitti was scribed in the rock: The photograph that was here will be updated shortly but in the meantime you are looking for the date that is underneath the lettering 'CGJ'
