Home of the Edgcumbe family for many centuries, Cotehele is one of the most original Tudor houses in the UK. Undisturbed and well preserved for centuries; much of the décor and furnishings have been preserved and today, you can really get a feel for how the family lived in the yester-year, going as far back [...]
Read More...Chun Castle, on the summit of Chun Downs, is one of Cornwall’s most natural hillforts. This is a stunning historical site with great coastal views. It is believed that settlements existed as far back as the Iron Age up to and including 500 AD. Like similar hillforts, evidence of concentric rings provides excavation points for [...]
Read More...Chun Quoit, on outskirts of Chun Downs, is a formation of rocks approximately three metres high, resembling a giant mushroom. This quoit is probably the best formed of all the quoits in Cornwall. The Cornish translation of Quoit is ‘the house on the downs’, and a quoit is essentially a chambered tomb. A quoit is [...]
Read More...A fantastic place to visit whilst on holiday in Cornwall is the Barbara Hepworth Museum. Barbara moved to Cornwall with her husband and very young family back in 1939. She discovered Trewyn Studios and thought it was a delightful place nestled superbly around St Ives; she found the tranquil surroundings of the studios adorned by [...]
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