BOCONNOC, a parish in the hundred of WEST county of CORNWALL, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Lostwithiel, containing 253 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, with which that of Broadoak was consolidated in 1742, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £9- 17. 8., and in the patronage of Lord Grenville. In 1644, during the parliamentary war, Charles abode a short time at Boconnoc House, when he narrowly escaped death, having been fired at by a rebel whilst walking in the grounds. In the park are vestiges of lead mines, one of which was worked about that period, and again about the middle of the eighteenth century, but the produce was found too small to defray the expense.