Mount Edgcumbe Country Park
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is listed as Grade I on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens and is one of four designated country parks in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The 885 acres (3.58 km2) country park is on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar. The park has been famous since the 18th century, when the Edgcumbe family created formal gardens, temples, follies and woodlands around the Tudor house. Specimen trees, such as Sequoiadendron giganteum, stand against copses which shelter a herd of wild fallow deer. The South West Coast Path runs through the park for nine miles (14 km) along the coastline.
View from Mount Edgcumbe Park across Plymouth Sound to Drake's Island
The Italian Garden
View across Barn Pool to the Formal Gardens
The Henrican blockhouse at Mount Edgcumbe which is believed to date from c. 1545
Plymouth Sound, or locally just The Sound, is a deep inlet or sound in the English Channel near Plymouth in England.
Image of the Breakwater and the Mewstone
Plymouth Sound from Heybook Bay
Scene in Plymouth Sound in August 1815 by J. J. Chalon, oil on canvas