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Above the point, a little below the Coastal Path, is Queen Adelaide's Chapel (or Grotto), an eyecatcher built in 1827 to commemorate the visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide to Mount Edgcumbe. [3] The Chapel was used as a lookout in the 1920s by Plymouth's dockworkers to identify incoming and outgoing merchant ships. [4]
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is a grade I listed country park in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [1] The 885 acres (3.58 km 2 ) country park is on the Rame Peninsula , overlooking Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar .
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is situated in the parish of Maker on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound; its main entrance is in the village of Cremyll. From Tudor times, it was the principal seat of the Edgcumbe family, many of whom served as MP before Richard Edgcumbe was raised to the peerage as Baron Edgcumbe in 1742.
Devil's Point as seen from Mount Edgcumbe Country Park. Devil's Point (also called Western King Point) is located on the eastern side of the mouth of the River Tamar where it meets the English Channel at Plymouth Sound. [1] [2]
Cotehele and its Italian garden terrace Arms of Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount Edgcumbe: Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent. Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust.
Garden Walls and Features of the Terraced Garden (including Ivy Cottage) approx. 30 Metres North of Groombridge Place: Old Groombridge, Speldhurst: House: c. 1980 20 October 1954
Sir Richard Edgcumbe (d.1562) built Mount Edgcumbe House in Cornwall and moved there from Cothele. [8] His descendant was Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe (1680–1758), whose second son was George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe (1720-1795). The earldom survives today, in a direct male line.
Mount Edgcumbe House. Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.It was created in 1789 for George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe. [1] This branch of the Edgcumbe family descends from Sir Piers Edgcumbe of Cotehele in Cornwall (descended from the younger son of Richard Edgcumbe (fl. 1324) of Edgcumbe in the parish of Milton Abbot in Devon [2]), who acquired an estate near ...