­From Botusfleming on the lower reaches of the Tamar we travel up to Boyton on its upper reaches. Boyton was a border parish with the Tamar demarcating its eastern side. It’s six miles from the nearest town - Launceston - and by the 1850s was well into a process of rural depopulation. Its population, 551 … Continue reading Boyton sunrise to Waterloo sunset →