What is Bodmin?
'''Bodmin''' is a town on the [[A30 road]], in [[Cornwall]], United Kingdom. It is in the centre of the county southwest of [[Bodmin Moor]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}}</ref> The neighbouring parishes are Cardinham, Lanhydrock, Lanivet and Helland.<ref>[http://mapping.cornwall.gov.uk/website/ccmap/ Cornwall Council online mapping] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927050041/http://mapping.cornwall.gov.uk/website/ccmap/ |date=2013-09-27 }}. Retrieved May 2010</ref> In 2001 there were 12,881 people living in Bodmin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=792818&c=bodmin&d=16&e=15&g=430597&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1304161013812&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=2001 population |access-date=2011-04-30 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304232020/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=792818&c=bodmin&d=16&e=15&g=430597&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1304161013812&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the Middle Ages Bodmin was one of the most important towns in Cornwall and the site of a monastery founded by Saint Petroc. The parish church of Bodmin was built in the 15th century and is the second largest church in the county after Truro Cathedral. == References == {{reflist}} {{multistub|geo|UK}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Towns in Cornwall]] [[Category:Anglicanism]] [[Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall]]