The 65 bedroom hotel, then known as King Arthur's Castle Hotel, was designed and built in 1899 by Silvanus Trevail (Cornwall's most famous architect in the 19th Century) originally for the Great Western Railway branchline from Camelford.

Tennyson wrote "Idylls of the King" on the cliffs in front of Tintagel Castle. Turner painted here, J B Priestley and A A Milne wrote here and Elgar composed his Second Symphony in Room 103

Camelot Castle was purchased in1999 by its present owners, John and Irina Mappin and Ted Stourton.