Boscastle (Cornish: Kastell Boterel) is a village an fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The name of the village derives from Bottreaux Castle, a 12th century motte-and-bailey fortress, of which few remains survive. A flash flood on 16 August 2004, caused extensive damage to the village, but much of this was repaired by the following year. Boscastle flooded again on the 21 June 2007 although the scale of devastation was not nearly as bad as in 2004.