Trerice owned by the Arundells and Aclands built in 1572-3 and added to over the years, without affecting the original front elevation, has a wonderful great hall with tudor glass windows and an extremely long table, the only piece of furniture left in the house when the National Trust took possession in 1953. Only small but the gardens were lovely and to top it all one of the best scones of our visits!

Wheal Coates one of the mining landscapes across Cornwall and West Devon which was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, placing Cornish mining heritage on a par with international treasures like Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.

Then lastly Gwennap Pit and Preaching Circle in a Cornish copper mining area which was described as the “richest square mile in the Old World”. John Wesley the Methodist leader preached here 18 times and termed the pit “the most magnificent spectacle this side of heaven”. Gwennap can hold 1,500 people around its 12 ‘rings’. The pit is still an active place of worship today with a chapel on site.

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  Wheal Coates

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