Cornwall
Monday 31st March to Saturday 5th April.
Itinerary
- Day 1 - Sudbury - Stonehenge/Salisbury - Amesbury
- Day 2 - Amesbury - Bodmin - Lanhydrock House - talk
- Day 3 - Lanhydrock (Bodmin) - St. Ives and Mines
- Day 4 - Bodmin - Trelissick (Feock, near Truro) - Lost Gardens of Heligan - St. Austell - St Dennis Church - Bodmin - talk
- Day 5 - Bodmin - Trerice NT - Padstow - Tintagel - Bodmin - talk
- Day 6 - Bodmin - Stowe (Oxfordshire) - Home
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Talks
These are tbe notes from Jane Crumpton-Taylor's itnerary plus any other information that
I can find.
The geology of Cornwall - Gus Horsley - Tuesday 1st April
Gus Horsley - a talk on the geology of Cornwall with particular reference to the areas we will be driving through on the
coach, for example the landscape going to St Ives, the area around Geevor and Levant mine and the Padstow and Tintagel coast. What
to look out for during the Geevor Mine visit. “I am involved in interpreting and protecting geological sites in Cornwall and this includes
mining remains. I am a member of Cornwall Geoconservation Group, Royal Geological Society of Cornwall &
the Cornish Mining Alliance.”
The English Country House - Paul Holden - Thursday 3rd April
Paul Holden FSA, is a freelance architectural historian, lecturer and writer. He was Chairman of the Cornish Buildings Group
between 2010 and 2018 and editor of Celebrating Pevsner: the proceedings of the 2015 Cornish Buildings Group conference (2017).
Other notable works include The Lanhydrock Atlas (2010) and The London Letters of Samuel Molyneux (2011). Paul is an editor for
Architectural Historian, a member of the Faculty Advisory Group of Truro Cathedral, a Council member of the Cornish Buildings Group
and reviewer for the Royal Society, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Will talk on The English Country House
Travel in Georgian Cornwall - Dr Charlotte Mackenzie - Friday 4th April
Dr Charlotte Mackenzie Travel in Georgian Cornwall. Charlotte MacKenzie is a former senior lecturer at Bath Spa University who has
published many books on Georgian Cornwall. Charlotte will be introducing her latest book Cornwall and the peace (2024) which looks
at why people travelled to and from Cornwall, and the impacts it had on their later lives.
Cornwall and the peace (2024)
Lanhydrock house and garden
Following the dissolution of the monasteries, Lanhydrock fell into the hands of the Glynn, Littleton and
Trenance families,
before being acquired by Richard Robartes in 1621.
At the beginning of the English Civil War, John Robartes fought
for Parliament with his own regiment.
In 1644, following a brief return to Lanhydrock,
he was forced to flee from the advancing Royalists, narrowly escaping with the Earl of Essex from Fowey to Plymouth.
Oliver Raymond served as an MP in 1653 and 1656. As far as is known he was not
a military man.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex - was overshadowed by Oliver Cromwell and
Thomas Faifax.
During the 1650s, he spent some time at Lanhydrock, where he opposed the execution of Charles I in 1649.
Following the Restoration of the monarchy, he was elevated to the Privy Council, and in 1679 he became the
Earl of Radnor.
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor
Battle of Lostwithiel (1644) - John Robartes fought on the Parlimentarian side along with
Devereux and
Fairfax.
They lost to Charles I's army.
In 1646 the Parliamentarians were victorious against Charles' forces led by Lord Hopton and
William Wentworth
(2nd Earl of Strafford). The surrender at Tresillian Bridge, near Truro, on 15 March 1646
In relation to Belchamp Walter, the estate was owned by Royalist Wentworth and Charles I's man in Ireland.
The defeat of the Royalists in Cornwall may have further emboldened the Parliamentarians to "grant" the estate to a
family of a "puritan" persuasion. The estate at Belchamp Walter was sold to the Raymond family in 1611 (before the
Parliamentarian victory) but in 1653 and 1656 Oliver Raymond was serving on Parliamentarian parliament.
