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Out & About

The Old Post Office -Tintagel

The Old Post Office is a delightful mediaeval building set in a cottage garden. A low roofed 14th Century yeoman’s farmhouse, it sits apart in the main street of Tintagel. It exudes charm. Inside, there is one room that has been restored to the way it would have looked when, in the late 19th Century, it served as  a letter receiving station. The other rooms are furnished in local oak and there is a good collection of samplers also from the late 19C

Trebarwith Strand

Trebarwith Strand, approximately 4 miles north of Camelford on the B3263, makes an excellent place to while away some time.  With its dark caves, fine golden sand and Gull Rock the views are quite spectacular.
At low tide Trebarwith Strand has almost a mile of unbroken golden sand. But beware, parts are accessible only at low tide and you should heed this. The cliff-top path passes by old cliff quarry workings that are quite spectacular and there are several old mine shafts along this stretch of coast that used to yield copper and tin as well as silver. One of these shafts has stalagmites and stalactites growing in it.
Trebarwith caters well for surfers, swimmers and rock poolers but do take notice of the lifeguards notices.

Pencarrow House and Gardens
This famous Georgian house, still owned and lived in by the Molesworth-St Aubyn family, is to be found just off the B3266 near to its junction with the A389 between Bodmin and Wadebridge. There are 50 acres of formal and woodland gardens which were designed and laid out by the Radical politician, Sir William Molesworth, between 1831 and 1855.
Before his death, Sir William was able to say that he had planted a specimen of every conifer, except ten, known to man and considered sufficiently hardy to stand a chance of surviving the British climate.
Lt. Col. Sir Arscott Molesworth-St. Aubyn extensively restored and replanted the gardens, which had become derelict during and after the Second World War.