The modern-day village of Tintagel was always known as Trevena ( Cornish : Tre war Venydh ) until the Post Office started using ` Tintagel ' as the name in the mid 19th century ( until then Tintagel had been restricted to the name of the headland and of the parish ) .
The modern-day village of Tintagel was known as Trevena until the Post Office decided to call it ` Tintagel ' in the mid 19th century ( until then Tintagel had always been the name of the headland and of the parish ) .