Cotehele still has a working Watermill that grinds flour ... and there are other workshops there.  Wheelwrights, saddlers, etc.   Where there had been a working quay it is now a visitor centre, and still used for trips along the river ... and a Cornish Gig Club.


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As I said I went to Cotehele ... it was started in 1458, although built around an earlier chapel, and used as a second home to a local family ... although it was their show-house, and hosted a Royal Visit in 1788. During WWII the primary home was destroyed during bombing, and about the same time the son of the family was killed in action. The house ( Read more... )

As I said I did have a lovely day out on Monday at Lanhydrock House with Christine. I have been before, but so many of these houses have so much to take in they are always worth another visit.


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As I have already posted, on the Easter Bank Holiday Monday I collected Christine and we went to Antony House which is at Torpoint in Cornwall.

Although it was very overcast from tome to time, we were again very lucky with the weather - so had a lovely day out

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Well I did warn you I wouldn't be around much at present - and here I am 2 posts in a week.

Christine & I went on our last weekly trip yesterday ... we went to Trerice House in Cornwall. Apparaently the house was what prompted the author of Poldark to write some of his stories.

( Didn't see Ross, sadly )

The day before my birthday, my great friend Christine, and I, went to Cotehele Stately Home. This has the advantage that the family didn't live ibn it much for a couple of centuries, so is still as it would have been in "days gone bye".  So it is basically a Tudor home, although it still has a working water mill, and quayside, to increase the ( Read more... )

And, a house has to have a garden ... and this one has a Church, as well!!

( Here is the garden & Church )

Another Bank Holiday .. another Day-Trip.

The weather was good, and it was nice to re-visit a Stately Home that I had been to before (the advantage of being a member of the National Trust).

This trip was to Lanhydrock in Cornwall. Much of the house is Victorian, due to a fire, but some do date back to the 16th century.

( Here is the house )

In Britain there are 4 well-known Patron Saints. However having lived in the county of Cornwall (the most S.W. in England), I have to celebrate St. Piran ... the patron saint of Cornwall.


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The house is set in loads of formal gardens ... as well as a lot of parkland, with deer and sheep.  We walked for over 3 hours, chatting ... and taking photos (of which these are a few)

( England's green and pleasant land )