CORNWALL

A few days at the end of April at Treslea, near Bodmin in Cornwall.

An interesting B&B in the country a short distance from Bodmin.

Where pheasants abounded.

Various farm property within walking distance.

Farming was a mix of livestock and cropping seen below.

Neatly ploughed fields...

...sheep.

Distinctive towers with small turrets on each of the four corners.  Usually as part of a church were located in most villages.

The Eden centre, a sustainable living demonstration area. This driveway border is Heather and Gorse.

Interesting rock where mining has previously been carried out in the same location as the Eden centre.

A small historic port built in the 1790's for the export of copper and china clay in the area.  The clay could be loaded directly into ships from the terrace to the left of channel.

National Trust property Cotehele in the Tamar Valley north west Cornwell. Described as a rambling Tudor house.

Entrance way into the building with well kept lawns.

The vegetable garden.

Neatly trimmed Yew trees.

The usual low doorway in some buildings, this one the garden tea room.

We leave the misty valleys of Cornwall at the beginning of May  traveling through Bodmin Moor to Gloucestershire.

Leaving the pheasants to their roaming.  While in the area we did spend some time in the Bodmin Jail as paying guests of the very good restaurant, the prison having been closed some years ago.