| Occasionally, highly visible rocks seem to have been singled out for special attention, as with some of the natural tors on Bodmin Moor. |
| In 1177, a Breton stole his relics from Bodmin and gave them to the Abbey of St Meen. |
| Bodmin monastery became one of the wealthiest Cornish foundations by the eleventh century. |
| The first rex cat born in captivity, a cream male subsequently named Kallibunker, arrived with a retinue of four straight-hair littermates on July 21, 1950, in Bodmin Moor. |
| In 1865 a public inquiry was held on the matter of amalgamating Bodmin Borough Police with the Cornwall Constabulary. |
| The main exposed masses of granite are seen at Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, St Austell, Carnmenellis, Land's End and the Isles of Scilly. |
