'Jamaica Inn' is set in Cornwall in the early 1800s although it was actually written in 1935. Daphne du Maurier lived for much of her life in Cornwall and had visited the real-life Jamaica Inn in remote Bodmin Moor, which still stands today (we called in during our tour of Cornwall and spent a very enjoyable few hours here - see the photographs below!). A flourishing smuggling trade existed in Cornwall back in the day, and in the book, the inn and the bleak moors surrounding it play host to a highly organized, blood-soaked smuggling operation.
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