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Cornwall is rich in beautiful and unusual gardens and grand country houses. Many are owned by the National Trust (NT).
- Lanhydrock House and Gardens (NT) - the ultimate Victorian country house
with 50 rooms and lovely gardens, pictured above, to explore.
- Cotehele (NT) - a rambling Tudor house with an ancient and magical atmosphere.
A huge estate and garden to explore; river quay and working watermill.
- Antony House (NT) - a classically beautiful country house and gardens,
still the Carew Poles' family home, as it has been for centuries.
- Trelissick Garden (NT) - a garden made for exploring,
in a spectacular position surrounded by water with panoramic views over the Fal estuary.
- Tintagel Old Post Office (NT) - one of the oldest houses
in Cornwall with a famously buckled slate roof, originally the home of a 14th-century yeoman farmer.
- Trerice (NT) - a secluded Elizabethan manor house,
hidden away from the modern world: a place of historic fun and discovery for families.
- St Michael's Mount (NT) - famous rocky island with a harbour and
village community, topped by a fortified medieval castle that’s still a family home.
- The Lost Gardens of Heligan - restored formal, kitchen and vegetable gardens,
Victorian glasshouses, woodland walks.
- Pencarrow House and Gardens - friendly family home privately owned by the
Molesworth-St Aubyn Family. The perfect place for everyone, including the dog! 50 acres of formal and woodland gardens.
- Caerhays Castle Gardens - nestled in a sheltered valley overlooking Porthluney Beach the 120 acre Caerhays Castle Gardens are
everything you could wish for in a spring woodland garden.
- Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park - restored Tudor mansion house, past home of Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall.
Ten acres of French, Italian and English formal gardens with temples.
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Victorian glasshouses at the Lost Gardens of Heligan
The Clock Tower at Antony House
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