Visiting Eden

The Eden Project is one of Cornwall's premier tourist attractions and is situated in an old China Clay Pit near St Austell.  It is a good place to go on a cold, wet and blustery day.  The following links will provide more information:

http://www.edenproject.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Project

 The Biomes - Large Greenhouses!

The Entrance to the tropical Biome

 Inside the tropical biome

 A waterfall

 The Malaysian Village

 Viv taking a breather - it was very muggy

 There were a few people there the day we visited

 Bananas on Display

Growing Bananas

 Inside the warm temperate Biome (Mediterranean Climate)

Lanhydrock House is a National Trust property not far from the Eden Project.  It is a property that Viv and myself like to visit frequently.  As well as the house and gardens, there are magnificent woodland and riverside walks.

 Wild flowers at the start of the walk - the bluebells are just beginning

 A water feature beside the road

 A view of Restormel Castle, a Medieval castle nearby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restormel_Castle

 A wall and a tree on the walk

 Viv on the banks of the river Fowey

Respryn bridge - the beginning and end of the walk

http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/medieval/bridge/respryn%20bridge/respryn_bridge.htm

A Couple of Days in Somerset

We took a short trip to Somerset to visit the village of East Lyng where my Mother's Great Granfather, Francis Phillips was born.  According to the Census information he was a farmer who lived on the main road through East Lyng.  East Lyng is a small village on the Somerset levels not very far from Athelney (where, reputedly, King Alfred the Greast burned the cakes)

 The Church at East Lyng

 East Lyng Main Street

This is the only Phillips grave we found in the graveyard.  I am yet to establish if he was a relative.

This is Barrow Mump situated not far from East Lyng

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow_Mump

http://www.palden.co.uk/leymap/burrowbridge-mump.html

http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/3244.html

Stembridge Windmill located near High Ham not far from East Lyng.  The last remaining thatched windmill in England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stembridge_Mill,_High_Ham

 Lytes Carey Manor near Charlton Mackrell in Somerset which dates back to 14th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytes_Cary

Spring flowers in the grounds of Lytes Carey

 Wood Anemones and Mosses on a wall

Montacute House, not far from Yeovil, a 16th century house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montacute_House

Wall Carvings at Montacute

In the Orangery

Barrington Court near Illminster made up of a Tudor house begun around 1538 and a later stable block built around 1674 and converted into a house in the 1920s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Court

 a Magnolia and a ornamental pond in the gardens

On our way  back to Saltash, we called  in at Seaton, a seaside resort on the south coast of East Devon

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaton,_Devon

Blackberry Camp, an Iron Age Hill Fort near Seaton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbury_Camp

Spring In Cornwall - 2015

 Spring at Cothele House

 A little waterfall

 Primroses and Daffodils

 A Profusion of spring flowers

More Primroses

 The Drive leading to Ince Castle near Saltash

 Ince Castle is a Private home that only opens it's gardens to the public occasionally

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ince_Castle

http://www.castlesuncovered.com/england/incecastle.html

 Magnolias

 The Water Feature

 Daffodils

A view through the woodlands to the River Lynher

A host of Golden Daffodils at Mount Edgecumbe

 A Camellia at Mount Edgecumbe

Primroses in the hedgerow - a lane near Tregony in Cornwall