A visit to Canonteign estate : Homes of Edward Pellew part 3

[nodbear]

Actually it is a moot point whether Canonteign was really ever a 'home' for Edward and Susan Pellew. Though the land was acquired and the house built mainly by Susan's oversight since it was she who supervised and dealt with much of the process of what became their official seat as Lord and Lady Exmouth, it was never really their home other than

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Canonteign

[amaraal]

Awwww. Lovely! The waterfall looks like a tiny Reichenbach :) Cream tea!!! YAY! How cool you could visit it and spent a lovely day there. Indeed a pretty place!

Re: Canonteign

[nodbear]

Cream tea and Canonteign when you manage a Spring visit some time - its a fangirl must !

and yes it does look like a mini Reichenbach - which is of course a lot smaller than many people imagine in any case

not exactly the mini Niagara of Guy Ritchie land :)

[asthenie_vd]

It looks so peaceful! Almost a bit bucolic.

I love you people posting all this stuff from Pellew's life! I read all the biographies of him I could find (well, not that many. All three of them! XD) and he just really grows on you. Such a fascinating, kind man. So reading about these places / seeing pictures always lifts my spirits.

[nodbear]

Yes it is a very peaceful place = which I suspect is part of the reason Ned never really lived there = partly to help his son and his grandchildren but mostly because it would have been too quiet and too far from the sea !
His and Susan's home in Teignmouth was/ is at the top of the cliff on the way in and out of town and overlooks the harbour which I think suited him better mostly though for grand family affairs they gathered at Canonteign.

Three biographies is quite good on the scale of things and they do get progressively better as you will have seen - Taylors is excellent .Many of his contemporaries have not got more than one and certainly not a well researched one with present day research and reference standards, so he has in the end been fortunate.

I shall be posting about the church where they are all buried soon too I hope since I was able to visit there as well.

glad you enjoyed reading it

[eglantine_br]

How he and Susan would laugh at the idea of a Ned T shirt!

It looks very tranquil. Do we know what Pownell looked like? (I am thinking of the picture of the dashing dark haired Fleet.)

[nodbear]

They would =Susan especially :) Though of course there was Algiers furnishing fabric in their day and handkerchiefs with Nelson and his captains and so on so it was not really much different I suppose. I don't think he has stopped laughing yet about the pirate ship = his t- shirts in the shop hang next to a section which is all pirate costumes to play dressing up :) for adults and kids.

re Pownoll sadly no we don't and suspect never will = there is never any word of a portrait or not that we have heard. No doubt there would have been one had he outlived his father by longer than 10 months or so but it is in keeping with his generally shadowy presence in the records anyway. I do have some pictures of part of his memorial now but even that is more enigmatic than the rest. I have a lead on a picture of George, the third son, and it just needs me to follow it up some time.

[mylodon]

How we've managed to miss that all these years beats me! Looks glorious.

[anteros_lmc]

I so wish I'd been there with you, but this is the next best thing :) It does indeed look like "one of the prettiest places in the world", but then we know that Susan had impeccable taste and an accomplished estate manager to boot! I hope that one day we will have a chance to visit the house itself, I would love to see if the billiard room is there.

Sorry I haven't had a chance to take a picture of the splendid t-shirt yet, I will try and do so tomorrow.