Port Eliot

After lunch we went to walk along the banks of the River Lynher in the parkland of Port Eliot, drained by Edward Eliot some time after he succeeded in 1748 and then planted by Humphrey Repton following the production of a Red Book in 1793:-

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Round a corner was the railway viaduct, built by Brunel to take trains to Penzance:-

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Then we walked through the ornamental gardens to the Orangery:-

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