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Trewithen Gardens and Nursery Near Truro. Covering some 30 acres, the gardens contain a large collection of camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons as well as many other trees and shrubs. Woodland gardens are surrounded by traditional landscaped parkland, there is also a video presentation of the house and gardens. |
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Truro and its Cathedral An important inland seaport in the Middle Ages, Truro declined with the silting up of the river's upper reaches. However with the high price paid for tin and copper in the 18th century it became an elegant Georgian town considered to be the 'London of the West'. The general architecture is impressive with its Assembly Rooms, City Hall, indoor Pannier Market and wide Lemon Street rising steeply to the south of the city, still one of the best preserved complete Georgian streets in England. Truro is also a city of narrow alleys or 'opes' with such names as Squeezegutts Alley! Today it is a delightful shopping city bustling round a three-spired cathedral. Completed in 1910, it was the first Anglican cathedral to have been built in England since St. Paul's. The site had been a place of worship for many centuries, albeit in four different buildings thus causing the aisle to be crooked! |
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Veryan A tranquil village in a lush wooded hollow, best known for its 5 circular 19th century round houses, each topped with a conical thatch and a cross. Their shape stems from an old tradition that the devil likes to hide and lay in wait in corners! East of the village lies the fishing village of Portloe and the location for the filming of Mary Wesley's "Camomile Lawn". |
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