Mount Edgcumbe Country Park

House & Earl’s Garden The Avenue The Orangery Formal Gardens The Blockhouse & Battery Barn Pool Rebuilt after World War II bomb For centuries artists have shown Built in the mid-18th century to Winding paths lead through an The Battery was once a saluting This quiet bay has witnessed damage, the house contains the House framed by its grand house orange trees from enchanting maze of themed platform, its guns fired to greet Viking ships at anchor, the many works of art and family avenue. Many trees fell in the Constantinople, the Orangery gardens – English, Italian, French, visitors, before it was rebuilt as wrecking of the Catherina von treasures. The Earl’s Garden has 1891 blizzard and in 1944 was bombed in 1941 and the American and New Zealand – part of ’s defences in Flensburg in 1786, and the rare trees, classical garden concrete roads were laid for the trees, some a century old, died. enhanced with statues, historic 1863. The Blockhouse, a Tudor embarkation of American troops houses and an exotic Shell Seat. D-Day invasion tanks and jeeps. It is now a restaurant and café. buildings and fountains. fort, saw action in the Civil War. for the D-Day invasion of 1944.

Cremyll Cremyll Ferry

Orangery Restaurant Barrow Park © Crown copyright. Camellia Collection

All rights reserved WC The mound to the north of the County Council, P V Mount Edgcumbe has hosted car park is a Bronze Age barrow 100019590, 2007. the National Camellia Collection (burial chamber). It has served The Battery & B3247 since 1976. From late January to as a ‘prospect mound’ from Blockhouse April, follow the Camellia Trail which to view the estate; as a Formal and marvel at the vivid colours of rifle range and a military camp. Gardens over 1000 varieties of camellia.

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Mount Barn Pool West Edgcumbe Harbour View Seat Lodge House Temple of Milton

An 18th century Doric temple Built in 1755, this attractively once stood on this site. The view V sited Ionic temple is inscribed is spectacular – the ferries P with an appropriate verse from crossing the Hamoaze; the Temple of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost Tamar Bridge; and Moor, Earl’s describing ‘a woody theatre of Kit Hill and Dartmoor beyond. Milton stateliest view’. Barrow Park Garden

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The Amphitheatre Ravenness Point Maker Church The Folly The Folly Home to the Edgcumbe family Harbour View An 18th century artificial ruin built vault, this strategically-sited Seat of stone salvaged from churches church was fortified during the B3247 in Stonehouse, the Folly has Civil War and captured by the sweeping views of Drake’s Roundheads in 1644. It later Island, , the acted as a naval signal station. Breakwater and Wembury Point.

Lady Emma’s P Earl’s DriveCottage Deer Park Maker Deer Park Church The Zig-zags The Deer Park was first enclosed Known in the 18th and 19th in 1515 by Sir Piers Edgcumbe centuries as ‘the Zig-Zags’, these and today’s deer are descended steep landscaped paths wound from that first herd. In World through exotic shrubs, beneath War II the park was an anti- Zig-zags archways and past stone aircraft and barrage balloon site. Picklecombe shelters with dramatic views. Seat K E Y P Car park P Car park for disabled users Fort Picklecombe (private) Cycle parking WC Toilets Historic building

National Camellia Collection

Multi-use trail Picklecombe Seat A moderate, hilly, route suitable for cyclists, wheelchair-users, 0 ¼ mile ½ mile Like the Folly, this shelter was walkers and horse-riders. The trail forms part of the Cornish Way, built with medieval stone from and includes a section of Route 2 of the National Cycle Network. Stonehouse churches. Beneath it stand the private apartments of The trail includes a sloping road (authorised vehicle access only) Picklecombe Fort, once part of from the Cremyll gates to Barrow Park, steep off-road hard- Plymouth’s Victorian defences. surfaced tracks though woods, and the circular, generally flat, off- road reinforced grass path in the Deer Park (see route profile). Landscape Park Trail A moderate, hilly, four-mile route for walkers only, around the 18th century landscaped park. Allow at least 2 hours. Further information Guides are available on site, including a Camellia Trail leaflet. The House & Earl’s Garden are open April – Sept. Admission fee. Phone 01752 822236 or visit www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk