Edgcumbe

The saluting platform with guns, which used to greet visitors to the Edgcumbe mansion, looks across the narrows to the marina, the apartments in the former victualling yard, and the spread of Plymouth, all backed by clouds obscuring Dartmoor.

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It's opposite the harbour slipway where you catch the foot ferry from Stonehouse to Cremyll gateway to the Mount Edgcumbe estate on the Cornish side of the Tamar estuary.

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Many fine and historic old trees were lost, and at Edgcumbe Park alone, near Plymouth, it was estimated that at least two thousand were blown down, and the damage was so extensive that it took two years to clear the park; while at Cotehele, near the little town of Calstock, the damage was beyond description.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Devonshire family, coming from the neighbourhood of Tavistock; the estate came to the possession of Sir Piers Edgcumbe by his marriage with Joan Durnford, of East Stonehouse, and the present house was begun by his son, Sir Richard, in 1553.

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Edgcumbe; this and other paintings of his are preserved among the art treasures.

The Cornwall Coast

Edgcumbe, which 'so affected the Duke of Medina-Sidonia' Fuller tells us, '(though but beholding it at a distance from the Sea), that he resolved it for his own possession in the partage of this kingdom (blame him not if choosing best for himself), which they had preconquered in their hopes and expectation.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Sir Henry Bodrigan was engaged in a fierce feud with the leaders of the Edgcumbe and Trevanion families, and in the hour of his prosperity he pressed them hardly.

The Cornwall Coast

Lieutenant Edgcumbe, son of Sir Robert Edgcumbe, Newquay, tells of another instance of treachery in which British uniforms were used, and declares, in common with many other officers, that he "will never again respect the Germans; they have no code of honor!"

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But it was Plymouth that had the last word, and Edgcumbe had to surrender in

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The view includes Mount Edgcumbe Castle, the breakwater built across the mouth of the harbour and Drake's Island.

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