Travel Reference
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AROUND BODMIN
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Lanhydrock
Located two-and-a-half miles from Bodmin, the 16th-century manor of
Lanhydrock
(NT;
01208-265950;
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhyd
rock; adult/child £10.70/5.30, grounds only £6.30/3.40; house
11am-5pm Tue-Sat, grounds 10am-6pm daily)
offers a fascinating insight into
Upstairs, Downstairs
life in Victorian England.
The house was originally built for the aristocratic Robartes clan, and still feels very
much like a family home. Highlights include the gentlemen's smoking room (lined with old
Etonian photos, moose heads and tiger-skin rugs); the children's nursery, movingly strewn
with abandoned toys belonging to the Robartes children; and the original kitchens with
their huge ovens and pioneering water-cooled cold store. There's also a fabulous plaster
ceiling in the Long Gallery, which somehow managed to escape a huge fire in 1881 that
gutted the rest of the house.
