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Lanhydrock House
This National Trust property is late Victorian, with a 17th century gatehouse and long gallery. This magnificent house belonged to the Robartes family for generations. The extensive servants’ quarters are marvellously evocative of the upstairs-downstairs culture of the 19th century, and the family rooms are elegant and unpretentious. Lanhydrock was used as a film location for The Three Musketeers (1993) and Twelth Night (1996). The house is surrounded by beautiful bluebell woodland and Victorian formal gardens. These gardens are full of colour throughout the year, in summer with a superb display of magnolias and tulips, and in autumn a glory of
golden colours.

Prideaux Place
For approximately 400 years, this house has been the home of the Prideaux-Brune family. Built in 1592 by Nicholas Prideaux, this elegant house remains in the hands of the Prideaux family, who are direct descendents from William the Conqueror. The formal gardens with terraced walks span 40 acres of land with a temple, Roman antiquities and a 9th century celtic cross within an ancient deer park, overlooking the camel estuary.

St Michael's Mount
This mediaeval castle is steeped in myth and legend. This island ‘other-world’ boasts over one thousand years of very special history. At low-tide you can follow the footsteps of pilgrims to ascend to the picturesque castle, or take a short boat trip at high tide. It is a surprise to see the formal gardens, impossibly clinging to the near vertical granite cliff-face, but these gardens have been cared for since 1780. The warmer weather even gives ideal conditions for a number of exotic plants.
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Eden Project
Eden famously is home to the two largest conservatories in the world. The humid tropics (also known as the rainforest) biome exhibits crops and cultivation from Malaysia, South America and West-Africa. The warm temperate biome is home to the delights of California, South Africa and the Mediterranean where plants thrive despite the poor soil and drought. The ‘outdoor biome’ exhibits plants which live in the Cornish soil, exposed to a Cornish climate. Eden has also dedicated a section of the outdoor to a Prairies of Mid-West America, and a Steppe area, recreating the vast tracts of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Lost Gardens of Heligan
This exquisite treasure lay neglected and undiscovered for years, until 1990, when Tim Smit (founder of Eden) and John Willis (of the Tremayne family) discovered the derelict gardens. They saw the beauty of the gardens and immediately became involved in their restoration. The gardens now produce vegetables and nurture many exotic plants and flowers. These sit amongst beautiful pleasure grounds, laid out over 200 years ago, with New Zealand and Italian gardens, summerhouses, pools, wishing wells and a crystal grotto.

Trebah 'Garden of Dreams'
This 26 acre ravine garden boasts its very own, secluded beach on the Helford River. Trebah is Cornish for ‘house on the bay’, and is recorded in the Doomsday Book of 1086. Like Heligan, Trebah degenerated after the two world wars, but in 1981 the house was bought by its present owners, who chose to restore the garden to its former glory. The garden is listed as one of the 80 best gardens in the world.

Visit www.nationaltrust.org for more houses and gardens to visit in Cornwall.