Grade 1 listed landscape. Situated next to the Cremyll Ferry, making it easily accessible to Plymouth, the estate has been carefully developed to offer a wide range of activities for young and old. For a fine snack, visit the all other Stables Café, or have tea in the Orangerie. iar beauties Browse around and support the pioneering pole of “It’s 400 years, 20 generations, 30 million also showcases Cornish people and places: artisans spirit of the extensive range in the American descendants and a mass of cultural and working in Mount Edgcumbe stables, the Cremyl independent shopping village, which offers a on of Mount technological changes since a small ship called ferry, the beautiful gardens of Mount Edgcumbe of activities from weaving to upcycling. nearly The 100 Mayflower, carrying 102 brave souls and range at and its famous native black bees. There’s segway rides, frisbee golf, mountain flower least sailed30 crew, set out on an epic voyage that was It tells the story of the original passengers and biking as well as walks. There are regular Park door innot only destined to change its passengers’ lives what led up to the ship casting off from Mayflower Runs, weddings and events like The Proms, irrevocably, but the very course of world history. Steps, Plymouth, on Sept 16, 1620 into the dark Vintage Car Fayre and Vintage Markets. mbe estate is And now is the time to tell it,” said Content treacherous seas of the Atlantic. It shows how For those wishing to get a better wall Council Director, Juliet Coombe. the forces that drove those on board to take understanding of what it took to survive in those early CouncilCalled and has become a pleasure Mayflower A Seachange, the book has been the ultimate gamble are still at work today - and rs fromcreated across the region and beyond. days when the pilgrims arrived at Cape Cod, as part of the forthcoming Mayflower 2020 considers what we can all do about them together. joy to explore. Plant hunters, over the Massachusetts, with not a shop or fast-food eatery in commemorations, 10% of the profit, pretty much The book introduces 20 people who were in sight, knowing they had to rely entirely on their skills to nced what has been grown on the all the author’s royalties, will go to the Ocean Plymouth around 1620 and their modern day get everything they needed, there’s Survival Wisdom. h is literally a living book on how the Conservation Trust to clean up the oceans. counterparts today, 400 years later. Sailors, mayors, Based at Mount Edgcumbe, the en changing over time. The idea for the book came from Dawn Bebe,who mothers, doctors, engineers, farmers, fishermen, Mount Edgcumbe Survival Wisdom team are ncienthas woodlands, beautiful ‘Pleasure’ set up Bookfluential as a community publishing is enriched with overcooks, to name a few - explore what their lives are training people to tackle any Italian,house American and New Zealand ten miles of coastline, and who has crowdfunded to get the like today and find out their views on the future. Bronze Age barrows, battle hostile environment by teaching nating evolving views on medicinal book in print. It’s being directed and There are interviews with the Lord Mayor of sites, awritten holy well,by Iron Age useful ancient skills, along with past, were used to cure everything forts, follies, chapels and Juliet Coombe, previously a travel writer and Plymouth, The Commander of the Royal Navy Base, a stunning landscape, resilience techniques on how to he formphotographer of pine needlefortea,lonely to on an ancient planet; built designed byvolcanic the custodian of the biggest Ashkenazi Synagogue live outside, using only their shes to treat exhaustion. These exotic lava flow.
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Gordon Ramsey’s book designer, James Edgar; edited, co- researched and co-written, by Charlie Keeler, Mayflower 400 historic OW & THEN tour guide for Devon & Cornwall Tour Guides in Plymouth; illustrated by Plymouth artist Sarah Smallden; and photographed by Guy Harris. The book clearly links Cornwall to the Mayflower story. The rumoured stop over by the ship at Penryn to fetch clean water due to Plymouth water being contaminated with Cholera is explored. And it includes fascinating facts and stories around the tin mining and china clay industries, the Prayer Book Rebellion, the Stannary parliaments held on Dartmoor and the great estate of Mt Edgcumbe. It
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in the Western World, a fisherman turned fisher of Antiques, cooks who are using recycled food to bring communities together, the inventor of the world’s biggest autonomous ship that’s set to revolutionise marine research, underwater archaeologists, a leading edge fashion designer, a royal opera singer - and a mum who juggles the modern world of family and business - to name but a few! The Crowdfunder campaign has reached it’s initial target and is now raising funds to print even more books. Visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ mayflowerseachange/ to find out more and order your copy!
