Directions to Caerhays Castle the estate, helping support gardens from the Cornish the well-loved house and weather, and harbouring large Caerhays Estate gardens that thousands of numbers of game birds. people visit each spring for their world-famous magnolia, Shooting may be seen as a camellia and rhododendron continuation of the tradition displays. The needs of game of ornamentalised fi eld sport birds and the methods of that was carried on in the deer parks. Here scores of fallow Caerhays shoots have greatly infl uenced the ways that large parts of deer were contained and central Caerhays have been hunted within large enclosures unencumbered by fi eld Estate developed. Woods, brakes and areas of seed-based boundaries, but instead made feeding are established and relatively open, decorated maintained, adding greatly to mainly by woods and clumps the variety of the land cover. of trees. Just as a landscape These are integrated with the of farming hamlets can be inherited parks, that nearest read as one of cooperation the castle a classic Georgian and neighbourliness, so a and Victorian landscape landscape of parks, as at From : fi rst turning right From St Austell: fi rst turning park, that on the slope facing Caerhays can also be read, off the A390 after Grampound after the end of Sticker by- Caerhays a Victorian deer as one linked to wealth and (signposted to Tregony and St pass (signposted to Tregony park, and that up the valley patronage. Both landscapes, Mawes) then follow signposts - B3287) turn right at fi rst behind Caerhays a medieval farming and parkland, are to Caerhays. junction and then follow beautiful not just because signposts to Caerhays. deer park. In between all three From & King Harry are multi-purpose plantations, of simple aesthetics, but because these meanings are Ferry: take right turning From Mevagissey: head for growing timber, acting as from A3078 (signposted to visual screens so clear. Through them we feel Gorran Churchtown and look and appreciate the depth and ) and next turning left for signpost to Caerhays at and backdrops, signposted to Caerhays. sheltering the weight of British rural history. Gorran High Lanes. Admission Caerhays is now the area’s Opening Dates principal estate, but as late Gardens Gardens Open as the early 19th century Adults £5.50 18th February to 1st June there were other important Children under 16 £2.50 10.00am - 5.00pm houses and manors nearby Children under 5 free 7 days a week at Tretheake, Trevennen House (conducted tour only) (Last entry 4.00pm) and Trevithick. Indeed the Adults £5.50 House Open western and eastern parts Children under 16 £2.50 10th March to 30th May of the current core estate Children under 5 free 12.00am - 4.00pm of Caerhays were acquired Gardens & House Monday to Friday from Tretheake and Adults £9.50 (inc bank holidays) Trevennen. Children under 16 £3.50 Reservations Children under 5 free recommended Caerhays Castle & Gardens Gorran, St Austell, Cornwall PL26 6LY The magnifi cent Tel: 01872 501310 / 501144 garden in fl ower Email: estateoffi [email protected]

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estate and country, enclosed land. any particular fi eld (or bundle bankrupt and in Scattered through the of strips) would be cultivated disgrace. farmland are several for just three or four years ‘rounds’, farming before being put down to The house, or castle, hamlets enclosed, pasture and hay grass for stood virtually or defended, by around twice as long. Over empty in the 1840s, circular banks and six, seven or eight years the occupied by farm ditches and dating grass develo