Tintagel

Tintagel Cornish: Tre war Venydh Trevena
Fore Street, Trevena, in 2009
Tintagel Location within Cornwall
Population	1,782 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Bossiney and Knightsmill)
OS grid reference	SX057884
Civil parish	Tintagel
Unitary authority	Cornwall Council
Ceremonial county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TINTAGEL
Postcode district	PL34
Dialling code	01840
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Cornwall
List of places UK England Cornwall 50°39′47″N 4°45′00″W / 50.663°N 4.750°W / 50.663; -4.750

Tintagel (/tɪnˈtædʒəl/) or Trevena (Cornish: Tre war Venydh,^[1] meaning Village on a Mountain) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surrounding King Arthur and in recent times have become a tourist attraction.^[2] It was claimed by Geoffrey of Monmouth that the castle was an ancient residence of King Arthur.

Tintagel is used by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse, and Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, is a play published in 1923, which perpetuates the same legend.

Tourists can visit King Arthur's Great Halls at Trevena which is a substantial building of the early 1930s. The Artognou stone, which was discovered in 1998, has added to the legend, although historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur.