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Menabilly (Cornish: Men Ebeli, meaning stone of colts) is a historic estate on the south coast of Cornwall, England, situated within the parish of Tywardreath [1] on the Gribben peninsula about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Fowey.
John Rashleigh II (1554 – 12 May 1624 [2]) of Menabilly, near Fowey in Cornwall, was an English merchant and was MP for Fowey in 1588 and 1597, and was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1608. He was the builder of the first mansion house on the family estate at Menabilly, near Fowey, Cornwall
Manderley is a fictional estate in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca, owned by the character Maxim de Winter.. Located in Southern England, Manderley is a typical country estate: it is filled with family heirlooms, is run by a large domestic staff and is open to the public on certain days.
Rashleigh of Menabilly vault, Kensal Green Cemetery, London In the Return of Owners of Land, 1873, Mr Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly Estate, Par, was listed as the largest landowner in Cornwall with an estate of 30,156 acres (122 km 2), or 3.97% of the total area of Cornwall. [9]
The Menabilly estate had been in the Rashleigh family since the 16th-century; in the Return of Owners of Land, 1873, a survey of British landholdings, Menabilly was the largest private estate in Cornwall of 30,156 acres (122.04 km 2) or 3.97% of the total area of the county. [4]
The village has been part of the Rashleigh family's Menabilly Estate from the late 16th century, and the estate built the half-moon quay in 1775 to help the seine netting company. [3] The seine company was in decline in the 1870s and closed.
Within the parish is the historic estate of Menabilly, long the seat of the Rashleigh family, in 1873 the largest landowners in Cornwall. [10] At Tregaminion was a private chapel belonging to the Rashleighs of Menabilly.
William Rashleigh (11 January 1777 – 14 May 1855) [1] was an English politician and landowner from Cornwall.. Antique print of Menabilly. Rashleigh was the son of Reverend Jonathan Rashleigh of Silverton, Devon, who was the third son of Jonathan Rashleigh (MP for Fowey) and the brother of Philip Rashleigh of Menabilly.