Guide to Mount Edgcumbe - Day trips from Plymouth
The former country seat of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, the grand Mount Edgcumbe house, is Grade I listed and situated in eight hundred and sixty-five acres of beautiful country park in south east Cornwall on the Rame Peninsula.
The first house was built in the early 16th century and following World War II was fully restored. Today, Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Council are the co-owners of both the magnificent house and its wonderful park and gardens which are open to the public. Within the park are various structures including a folly to complement the British oaks and Californian redwoods that stand proud high above the River Tamar and Plymouth Sound.
Within Mount Edgcumbe House are many Edgcumbe-family treasures including tapestries from the 16th century and porcelain from the 18th century. Gracing the walls 
are serious works by painters such as William van der Velde and and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
In the 18th century, the Earl's Garden was landscaped and wonderfully rare trees were planted to grace terraced lawns and garden houses including an Orangery.
Also within the park are New Zealand and American gardens and a French Garden with formal flowerbeds, lawns and box hedges and an English Garden which has wild flowers and an eclectic mix of trees including cork, ginko, magnolia and paulownia.
Mount Edgcumbe Park and House
Mount Edgcumbe House is open to the public on payment of an entrance fee from the beginning of April until the end of September. Mount Edgcumbe Park is free to the public and open all year round from eight am until sundown and includes access to the Orangery Restaurant.
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