Notes from the May - June 2009
Tour of Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia and England

Bodmin, England - June 20 After returning from Padstow, we visited Lanhydrock, a magnificent late Victorian country house with extensive servants' quarters, gardens and 450 acres of wooded estate.

Generations of the Robartes family occupied this estate first acquired in 1620.

The church is separately maintained, not part of the National Trust.

A magnolia tunnel

Delicate

No pictures were allowed inside. The main house was the ultimate 19th-century `Upstairs/Downstairs` experience. Upstairs had beautifully decorated rooms with many artifacts from the Robartes` lives, while Downstairs had servants` quarters, an enormous kitchen with an `. . . elaborate arrangment of roasting-spits .. operated by a large fan fitted in the flue above the fire` and multiple larders for dry goods, milk/cheese, vegetables, fish and meat. Very interesting to imagine what life was like.

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