WELCOME TO KING ARTHUR’S ARM'S
Comfortable seating for that welcome meal
Love a proper fire.
Jerome Dangar is your host and is a native of Tintagel. Terry Jerome Dangar, Jerome’s father, was born and brought up in King Arthur’s Arms. It is interesting to note that the historical notes of Tintagel record that John Dangar (who died in 1578 ) had two grandsons who both had sons called Jerome and from that time to this there has been Jerome Dangar in every generation except one! Since names such as Zias, Rychabb and Jease were also chosen by previous Dangar’s, Jerome had a lucky escape.
THE PUB
Winners of 2007 best fancy dress for bar staff in the Tintagel carnival. The carnival is usually early August each year.
Winners of best supporters of the North Cornwall Motorbike Club 2007 ( Jerome, landlord & David, headbar person)
Keep an eye on our news pages for up coming entertainment.
Food is served all day.
Our menu includes good selection of homemade dishes, which does mean that all the dishes are not always available. The meat used in our food is locally sourced whenever possible from a local farmer/butcher from St.Tudy and all milk and cream comes from a local farm at Delabole.
Here is a picture of the main bar, as you can see the pub is much larger than it appears from outside. There is also a comfortable lounge bar. The pub also has a large projection screen, discrete T.V's for those important sports events, pool table, I.T. box with WiFi access so you can bring along your laptop and a dart board for your fun.
There is an ATM machine in the main bar.
Here are 2 of our family bedrooms both of which are en-suite and have been refurbished to a very good standard.
This room also has a couch and there is a baby's cot & highchair available on request.
Bed and Breakfast tarif's.
see room rates.
SPECIAL PRICES
There is a £7.50 single person supplement per night.
EN-SUITE ROOM RATES ARE AS FOLLOWS.
Per Person Per Night based on normal occupancy.
Price Duration Discounted rates
£32.50 4 - 6 nights £30.00
£32.50 7 or more nights £28.00
There is a £7.50 single person supplement per night.
Included is full English breakfast.
current offer
HAPPY TO SHARE WITH FRIENDS OR FAMILY?
4 people sharing an en-suite family room: price capped at £100 per room per night.
BREAKFAST is served in the lounge bar from 9am to 10am each day. If you like a lie in, you may order your cooked breakfast until midday, but please note if you are booking out rooms are to be vacated by 10am on the day of departure, but you still take a delayed breakfast!
You may continue to use the VIP car parking concessionary ticket provided for the rest of the day after booking out.
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TINTAGEL
King Arthur's Country
Tintagel in 1259 known as Trewarvene, in 1284 known as TREVENE, in 1399 known as TREVENA and originally known as TRE-WAR-VENETH ‘farm on the hill’
For centuries Tintagel with its powerful atmosphere has been a place of inspiration for poets, composers and artists, including Turner and Tennyson. More recently Tintagel’s magnificent scenery has delighted the modern equivalents of the movie and television program makers from home and abroad.
The dramatic setting of Tintagel castle, straddling the mainland and the island, seems to give credence to the myths and legends associated with it. Reputedly the ruins we see today were built on the site of an ancient fortress that would have been used by the ancient kings of Cornwall. We are convinced that our King Arthur was one of these kings. Today’s remains date from 1236 and the Earl Richard , second son of King John. The castle was added to during the 14th century by Edward he Black Prince, who was the 1st Duke of Cornwall. By the 17th century the ruins that survived had became known as King Arthur’s Castle. The relentlessly pounding seas around our coastline has taken it’s toll on the landscape and much of the land that was around the castle has fallen away.
Today the care of the castle is the responsibility of English Heritage who have undertaken a great deal of work to make the site safely accessible, well maintained, educational and interesting. English Heritage have invested in an improved access road for both walkers and the land rover service.
At the base of the castle you will find toilet facilities, a shop and a free information video show. Down the steps into the cove and onto the beach you will find the famous Merlin’s cave.
The walk to the ruins is very steep whether you go via the church road or the direct path. The good news is that during the summer months there is a land rover service, which will take you as far as the base of the ruins from where you get a good view and the “feel” of the surroundings and / or bring you back up the hill. There is a small fee each way for this service.
St Materiana is the parish church of Tintagel. It was already an ancient church at the time of the Doomsday book of 1085 when it was undergoing major restoration, this taking about 70 years to complete. With some minor modifications, this is the church we see today. Make sure to look at the "modern" stained glass window.
Tintagel is the home of some gems of landscape formations, in addition to it’s great scenic beauty.
At Bossiney cove you will find an out crop of rock the image of an elephants head. This is a lovely cove but one has to be energetic to face the twisty narrow path down that offers no choice but to walk. Further along at Rocky Valley the cut out formation that leads your eye to the sea is breathtaking, if not a little scary to see the sea using it’s great energy to pound and cut away at the rocks, as it forces itself up and over them with each high tide. Also here at the ruins of Trewethett mill are 2 strange carvings that may belong to the Neolithic age 2000 BC or, it has been suggested, to archaeological students of the 1940’s!
All the “Tre”s that appear in the names of the hamlets that together form the parish of Tintagel do have meanings: Trenale the place on the moor, Trenouth new place, Trebarwith middle place, Trecarne the rocky slope, Treven the marshy place, Tregeath hidden place, Treknow the valley place, Trevena place on the hill, Trewarmette the place of Garman, Trethevy place of David, Trevillick place of Maliac, Trewinnick place of Gwinoc, Tregatta place of Catte.
There is an old ditty that goes Trevena, Treven, Tregatta, Treknow, Trenale, Trewarmette, Trebarwith and Beslow, 8 little villages all in a row.
A few extra meanings:
TIN, a hillfort or fortification (that’s us!)
POLAN, a saltwater pond.
POL, a creek, cove or pit.
PENN , a headland or promontory.
TRES, a ford.
LOE, lake or inlet water.
TREV, a village, town, hamlet or homestead
Book a room and see the great scenery at your leisure