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Mar 8 / Administrator

3rd to 6th March – Cornwall

110-20140303c.JPGWith Spring apparently arriving and the promise of sunshine, we headed off to Cornwall for 3 nights at The Crown inn in Lanlivery a few miles south of Bodmin. 

This was our fourth time staying at the pub and so we knew where we would go to walk etc.

The269-20140303a.JPG  afternoon we arrived we headed to Truro Cathedral.  Surprisingly, Gerry had never been there before, and was quite surprised to find that a quite beautiful Victorian Church building could be constructed with the nave and chancel out of line but this was because of the adjacent old parish church that was incorporated into the Cathedral. 

After leaving the Cathedral we headed for the gardens at Trelissick. 

The winter storms had caused quite a lot of damage including a large tree that had fallen across our path.  A local said that the tree had only come down in the last 24 hours obviously the root system had been severely weakened in the recent very severe storms.

It was quite a sobering thought for us as we continued our walk through the woods.

We saw more tree damage on our walk the next day when we were at Lanhydrock.  Four out of a group of large trees had been uprooted.

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We also walked along the banks of the Fowey from Lerryn to St Winnow Church (a lovely old church adjacent to the river bank) before heading back to Lerryn over the hills where we encountered incredible mud and water around some of the gates we had to go through.  It seemed odd that the muddiest areas were at some of the highest places on our walks.

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On 269-20140305a.JPGWednesday morning we visited the National Trust property Trerice.  It was a lovely place and we thoroughly enjoyed meandering through the house and gardens.

Our next stop was Penzance where we intended to walk to Newlyn and then on to Mousehole.  However, the storm damage to the sea wall meant that we could walk along very little of the only promenade in Cornwall and were constrained to walking on pavements beside quite busy roads (certainly not as enjoyable as we had hoped).  The view from Newlyn across the bay to Penzance was good though the picture probably does not do it justice.
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Wednesday evening saw us return to Truro cathedral for the Ash Wednesday service of Solemn Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes.  The service included the Cathedral Choir singing Allegri’s Miserere Mei, Deus.  It was a lovely service and a fitting end to our time in Cornwall as we left the next morning to return to Fairford.