Botallack ( kw, Bostalek, meaning "Talek's dwelling") is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives in the east to the A30 road, near Land's End. The village is included in the St Just in Penwith division on Cornwall Council. The original 1970s BBC television series '' Poldark'' was filmed partly in Botallack, using Manor Farm as

Nampara ''Poldark'' is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002. The first novel, '' Ross Poldark'', was named for the protagonist of the series. The novel series was adapted twice fo ...

. The Manor House, part of the Tregothnan estate, is a Grade II* listed building, dating from the 17th century. Lae Maen Veor (Cornish: ''Legh Men Veur'' meaning ''great stone ledge''), or Botallack Head, is a headland to the north west of Botallack. The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM.

Geography

The village is in a former tin mining area between the town of St Just in Penwith and the village of Pendeen. The Botallack Mine, former tin mines, are low down the cliffs north of Botallack.

Notable residents

* Roger Hilton (1911–1975), an

abstract art Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...

ist and winner of the Orpen prize while studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1930. * Rose Hilton (1931–2019), a

post-impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...

painter, who moved to Botallack in 1965 and had a solo show at

Newlyn Art Gallery Newlyn Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK. Opened in 1895, designed by James Hicks of Redruth and financed by John Passmore Edwards the gallery was conceived as a home and exhibition venue for the Newlyn ...

in 1977 and a retrospective exhibition at Tate St Ives in 2008.

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Populated coastal places in Cornwall St Just in Penwith Villages in Cornwall {{Penwith-geo-stub