Bake ( kw, Pobas) is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

in south-east

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, England, United Kingdom. It is west of St Germans at , south-west of the A38/ A374 Trerulefoot roundabout.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' Bake is the seat of the Moyle family (although Bake itself is in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

Deviock Deviock is a coastal civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of St Germans and straddles the valley of the River Seaton. The parish includes the settlements of Hesse ...

) and St German's Priory has a mortuary chapel for the Moyle family of Bake. West of the manor house, a steep tree-lined valley called Bake Wood runs down to the

River Seaton The River Seaton is a river in east Cornwall, England, UK which flows southwards for into the English Channel. The river rises near Caradon Hill and flows generally south past Darite, Menheniot and Hessenford and a few miles farther south ...

. At the top of the valley, seven artificial lakes are commercially operated as Bake Fishing Lakes providing

coarse fishing In Britain and Ireland, coarse fishing (, ) refers to angling for rough fish, which are fish species traditionally considered undesirable as a food or game fish. Freshwater game fish are all salmonids — most particularly salmon, trout and ch ...

and fly fishing. There is also a place called Bake in the civil parish of

Pelynt Pelynt ( kw, Pluwnennys, Pluwnonna) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth and four miles (6.5 km) west-northwest of Looe. Pelynt had a population of around 1,124 ...

Weatherhill, Craig Craig Weatherhill (1950 or 1951 – 18 or 19 July 2020) was a Cornish antiquarian, novelist and writer on the history, archaeology, place names and mythology of Cornwall. Weatherhill attended school in Falmouth, where his parents ran a sports ...

(2009) ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 20

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Hamlets in Cornwall {{Caradon-geo-stub

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