Bodinnick (Standard Written Form: Bosdinek, meaning fortified dwelling)[citation needed] is a riverside village in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.

[8] Hall Walk is along the cliff which is halfway up the Bodinnick hill which winds around the Pont Creek.

St. Wyllow was a contemporary of St. Mancus and Meubred and his tomb lies one mile away from Bodinnick, where a festival is also held in his honour.

[10] In August 1644, the king visited Cornwall and an attempt was made on his life with a cannonball, it missed, but was reported to have killed a fisherman nearby.

[11] During the late 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Bodinnick and the nearby villages of Fowey and Polruan were home to wealthy shipping merchants and master mariners.

[12] In the 1680s, John Gandy of Exeter supplied cloth to Philippa Randle of Bodinnick, sending consignments both by barge along the coast and across the fields by pack horse.

[14] Daphne du Maurier wrote many novels while living at "Ferryside" (a house that is stated to be still owned by her family) on the river bank at Bodinnick on the eastern shore, opposite to Fowey; she moved to Menabilly later after the publication of her 1938 novel Rebecca.