Mount Edgcumbe House is a stately home in south-east Cornwall. It is situated in an 865-acre park on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound. The main entrance to the park is in the village of Cremyll. The house was formerly the seat of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property (after the Dissolution of the Monasteries). ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... The Rame Peninsula (pronounced ) is a peninsula in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. ... Plymouth Sound, or just The Sound, is a bay at Plymouth in England. ... The title of Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1789. ...
The house was built between 1547 and 1553. It was gutted by German bombs in 1943, and restored from 1958 onwards by the 6th Earl. In 1971, the 7th Earl sold the house and park to Cornwall County Council and Plymouth City Council, and it has been open to the public since 1988. Its interiors have been restored to 18th century styles. Plymouth is a city in the southwest of England, or alternatively the Westcountry, and is situated within the traditional county of Devon. ...
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MountEdgcumbe had formerly a village called West Stonehouse, as noticed at page 689, and was the property of the ancient family of Stonehouse, whose heiress brought it to the Durnfords.
MOUNTEDGCUMBE, the delightful seat of the Earl of that name, occupies that towering promontory of verdant lawns, groves, parks, rocky cliffs, and sylvan terraces, which overlooks the spacious harbours of Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound, and the towns of Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport; and is approached from thence by the Cremill ferry boat.
The church occupies a commanding eminence between MountEdgcumbe and Rame Head, and its tower serves as a land-mark, and in the late wars was used as a signal station.
North of MountEdgcumbe are Stonehouse and Devonport; east of it Plymouth Sound; and south is the magnificent sea which forms the English Channel, with the stone breakwater stretching out to check and arrest the might of the great Atlantic waves.
Cothele being in Cornwall, the Edgcumbes moved thither and resided at that beautiful spot for several generations, Richard Edgcumbe, grandson of the heiress and her husband, was an adherent of Richmond (afterwards Henry VII.).
Edgcumbe's valour in that battle was rewarded by Henry with knighthood on the field, and after the earl's accession to the throne, by the gift of Totnes Castle and lordship.
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