Mount Edgcumbe

The Armchair Adventure Festival returns to Mount Edgcumbe

The Armchair Adventure Festival returns to Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall 22-25 September

The Armchair Adventure Festival is back for 2022, bringing a celebration of adventure to Cornwall. The world’s leading adventurers will gather at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park for a full weekend of adventure! The event will feature inspiring tales of adventure and exploration, adventurous activities...

Mount Edgcumbe secures vital land management funding

Mount Edgcumbe Country House and Park, which is jointly run by Plymouth City and Cornwall Councils, has secured nearly £700,000 for improvements to its historic landscape and listed structures.

Natural England, the government’s adviser on the natural environment, has awarded the funding through its Higher Level Stewardship Scheme.

The scheme provides capital and revenue funding...

Things are growing fast at Mount Edgcumbe

A new monthly produce market is starting up at Mount Edgcumbe thanks to a partnership between the estate and Tamar Grow Local and Let them Eat Cake.

The market will focus on food and drink made in the Tamar Valley and take place every second Sunday of the month from 11 May to 16 November.

The new market is just one of many new events planned at the park this year and follows on...

Camelia Walk

This is an opportunity to join the Curator of the National Camelia Collection, held by Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, on a conducted tour of the collection that currently numbers approximately 1,000 cultivars. Meeting at Dry Walk Car Park.

Tic kets costs £5 per person. Suitable walking shoes and clothing is a must on this outdoor adventure.

10am-noon

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Dowsing for Beginners

Dowsing for Beginners Sunday 9 March 2014, 10.30am to 12.30pm Sceptical? Why not try out the ancient art of dowsing here at Mount Edgcumbe and develop a new skill.

Meeting on the terrace in front of the House.

Tickets £5 per person and don’t forget your wire coat hangers!

http://www.mountedgcumbe.gov.uk/

Magical moments at Mount Edgcumbe

It’s not just tinsel, baubles and fairy lights that will be shining brightly at Mount Edgcumbe this Christmas.

Visitors to the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December will be able to step back in time to a bygone era and enjoy a Victorian Magic Lantern Show.

This captivating and mysteriously beautiful form of entertainment was a treat enjoyed by our ancestors over...

A Christmas of culinary delights at Mount Edgcumbe

Be inspired by some of the best and brightest of Devon and Cornwall's culinary world at this year's Mount Edgcumbe Christmas Fayre.

Toby Bragg from the Devonport Guildhall will be proving his baking know-how on Saturday 7 December when he uncovers the mysteries of bread making, before Chris Penk and his Cornwall College catering students give a demonstration, where you might just...

Military might on show at Mount Edgcumbe this weekend

Motor-mad enthusiasts and military buffs are under orders to get to the Mount Edgcumbe this Bank Holiday weekend.

The estate will be taking a drive back in time with historic military vehicles on display in the park on 24, 25 and 26 August (Saturday, Sunday and Monday).

The vehicles, which range from World War II jeeps to 1970s armoured trucks, have been carefully restored by...

Treasures from 18th century ship wreck in Mount Edgcumbe collection

Monty Halls, TV presenter, marine biologist, travel writer and diver, will host the launch of the Metta Catharina Exhibition at Mount Edgcumbe House.

The Metta Catharina, a Danish brigantine en route from St Petersburg in Russia to Genoa in Northern Italy was caught by a fierce storm in the English Channel in December 1786. She found shelter from the South Westerly’s just off Mount...

Adventure Segway comes to Mount Edgcumbe

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is about to welcome a brand new venture. Adventure Segway launches at the popular visitor attraction on 1 May, and will be a daily fixture at Mount Edgcumbe.

Adventurers will be invited to join the all new experience that’s as big as the park itself, aboard an all-terrain Segway on which you will be able to navigate a selection of fun features...

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