Lizard Peninsula Heritage Trust an Environmental Charity Dedicated to the Recognition, Protection, Enhancement and Enjoyment of the Lizard Peninsula
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Lizard Peninsula Heritage Trust An environmental charity dedicated to the recognition, protection, enhancement and enjoyment of the Lizard Peninsula Friends of the Lizard 1997-2006 Registered Charity No 1092934 Patron: Jill Morison DL Newsletter No 63, April 2015 Chairman’s Message With this Newsletter, you will find our Events Programme for 2015. Once again, my thanks to Lynda Blackman and her Events Committee for their hard work in putting this together. As last year, we are travelling out of area for one event - to Mount Edgcumbe and we will be car sharing again. Please notify us if you intend to come on any event in case of last minute changes to the arrangements. We have already had a successful lunch at the Prince of Wales PH and I hope to see as many of you as possible during the year. Geoff Blackman Events before the next Newsletter (due in July 2015) Friday 24 April: Helston Town Trail Lynda & Geoffrey Blackman Meet: 2.00 pm outside The Guildhall in Helston. (OS ref SW 659 275) We will follow the Helston Town Trail, after which we will seek out some Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park refreshment at the Helston Boating Lakeside café. The trail will take between 1½ and 2 hours and is on pavements or paved/cobbled lanes. Across the water from the historic city of Plymouth lies the great There will be frequent stops but many up and down hills as is the nature Cornish House of Mount Edgcumbe, set in Grade I Cornish of Helston. Not suitable for dogs. Gardens, within a 865 acres Country Park on the Rame Peninsula. The house was built between 1547 and 1553, for the Tuesday 19 May: Visit to Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park renowned Edgcumbe family of Cotehele, and became the home Gill & David Richardson ( see next column and page 2 in this Newsletter ) of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. For the first time in England, a Meet: 9.30 am Mawgan Village Hall car park. (OS ref: SW 702 244) house was built to take advantage of the wonderful situation and Booking is essential by Monday 11 May. We will take as few cars as views, rather than as a defensive house around a courtyard. necessary. Cost: Admission fee to the park, a guided tour of the House and Earl’s The banqueting hall adjoining the house was damaged in the Garden is £6.50 block booking price for concessions payable on arrival. Civil War, and the house saw many changes to its structure over (Depends on numbers of at least 10). We plan to lunch in one of the the years, none more dramatic than in 1941, when gutted by cafes at Mount Edgcumbe. For more information visit http://www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk enemy action. 1958 saw the beginning of reconstruction, when the 6th Earl restored the house to its original 16th century Thursday 4 June: National Trust Windmill Farm Project proportions. In 1971 the house, together with 865 acres, was David Richardson sold to Cornwall County and Plymouth City Councils and has Meet: 2.00 pm National Trust Office at Poltesco. (OS ref: SW 725 158) been open to the general public on a regular basis since 1988. Nick Marriott (West Cornwall Reserve Manager for Cornwall Wildlife The house has now been restored to the 18th century style, in Trust) will talk about the project at Windmill Farm. Afterwards, Rachel keeping with the furniture and family treasures it holds, all of Holder (National Trust Ranger) will lead a short walk around Poltesco, which have family connections. Features include paintings by (sturdy shoes essential for the walk). Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gerard Edema and William van der Velde, Friday 12 June: Botanical Walk with Steve Townsend Irish Bronze Age horns, 16th century tapestries and 18th century David Richardson Chinese and Plymouth porcelain. Meet: 11.00 am Higher Bochym (Natural England Estate Offices) The Earl's Garden was created beside the Tudor House in the (OS ref: SW 704 202) Bring: walking boots or strong shoes and a picnic lunch. 18th century. Ancient and rare trees including a 400 year old We will begin with a short introduction and coffee at the Natural England lime, a splendid Lucombe oak, and a Mexican pine, set among Offices. After which we will, in a small number of cars, drive to the walk - classical garden houses and an exotic shell seat. Colourful starting near Kynance Farm where Steve will show and discuss flora. flowers and heathers grace the recreated Victorian east lawn No dogs on this occasion please. terrace, which has spectacular views over Plymouth Sound. Tuesday 23 June: Withan Woods and Kestle Barton The formal gardens are in the lower park and were created over Lynda & Geoffrey Blackman 200 years ago in the English, French and Italian styles. They have recently been added to with an American plantation and a Meet: 2.00 pm Kestle Barton. (OS ref: SW 753 254) New Zealand-styled garden, both countries having strong family Bring: Strong shoes or walking boots. A pole for the creekside walk may be useful. connections. In 2002 a Jubilee Garden was established to From Kestle, we will walk along the creek and through Withan Woods, commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. A series of returning for a look around Kestle’s current exhibition and a cup of tea ponds enhance the Amphitheatre, a small valley garden from their kiosk. overlooking Plymouth Sound with its shingle beach. The lower pond near Milton's Temple is a great haven for bird life. Early Saturday 4 July: Annual BBQ plantings of camellias are found in the area. Events Committee Meet: 12.30 pm Ruth & John Thompson, Mellan House, North Corner, The Stables Cafe, with seating inside and out, has a menu that Coverack TR12 6TH. (OS ref: SW 781 186) focuses on homemade, freshly prepared and locally sourced Cost: Booking is essential by 29 June - £12 per person- all in price. dishes, catering for breakfasts, light lunches, hot dishes, drinks Details: Send cheques, payable to ‘Lizard Peninsula Heritage Trust’, to and homemade cakes and scones. The Orangery , in the Italian Geoffrey Blackman at 5 Park Enskellaw, Mullion, TR12 7JG. Garden, serves local seasonal food for brunch, lunch, Sunday Special dietary requirements, call Lynda on 01326 241722. roast, local coffee and homemade cakes. (continued over) Lizard Peninsula Heritage Trust - Newsletter 63, April 2015 - Page 1 Coprophilic Canines Those of you who take the West Briton might have noticed an article in it just before Christmas concerning doggy demises on The Lizard. As you know, (Lizard Trust Newsletter 61, October 2014, page 2) we lost our dear Yussi (named Beauty in the article in case her former owner read it) in July, but there then followed a spate of further incidents, also involving sudden sickness and death with no apparent cause. Other dogs suffered similar symptoms but pulled through. The W.B. article was instigated by our neighbour, with the full support of both Helston veterinary practices and the police, and we hoped it might shine a light on the mystery. There was very little response until January when another Lizard resident Mount Edgcumbe - The Orangery & Italian Garden suggested that sheep wormer might be the cause. The following For this visit to Mount Edgcumbe, we need an early start, meeting to is based on an internet article: share cars at Mawgan Village Hall. We are hoping that priority of lifts can be offered to members who would otherwise be unable to go. Sheep droppings won't harm your dog in any way (nor will their Please contact me with offers or requests for transport. worms). However, depending on your breed of dog, if the sheep have been wormed in the last two weeks, the droppings could David Richardson be deadly. Generally sheep are wormed with ivomec which is fine for most dogs but in certain dogs their blood/brain barrier Planning Matters - Community Right of Appeal can be breached by the ivomec and cause problems such as A new alliance of Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), vomiting, lethargy and death. The toxicity is not limited to Civic Voice and the National Association of Local Councils ivomec but to a broad class of drugs that includes medicines (NALC), has called on all political parties to make a firm such as that in immodium (which you might give to a dog with manifesto commitment to introduce a “community right of diarrhoea), ace, atopica etc. appeal” into the planning system. The ivomec is out of the sheep's system within 24 hours, but the The alliance believes that all political parties should support local drug can stay active in the droppings for up to two weeks. If ambitions by introducing a limited community right of appeal in your dog is not among those affected by the mdr1 gene it's not a areas where a development is non-compliant with a problem. If your dog is in the breeds listed, get your dog tested neighbourhood plan or local plan. Parish councils and other because the class of drugs includes those that might be community groups have the power to produce neighbourhood (inadvertantly) prescribed by a vet - and you should not expect plans, but no scope to stop developers overriding this by putting that your vet will test your dog or warn you about this. in speculative planning applications for approval by the district As to whether vets know about this, and should warn dog council. Budget cuts within local authorities mean that they are owners, the jury is still out.