Trengwainton
Trengwainton Garden is in a sheltered position in the far west of Cornwall, with distant yet splendid views over Mount’s Bay towards the Lizard. The garden follows the course of a picturesque stream, with meandering paths leading up to a terrace and summerhouses. The very mild climate here allows a renowned collection of trees and shrubs to flourish, many of which originate from plant-hunting expeditions in the 1920s. The walled gardens are being restored and kitchen garden crops gradually being reintroduced into the productive area. Visitors can climb a raised platform to take in the scale of these gardens with their unique sloping raised beds, built to the dimensions of Noah’s Ark as described in The Bible.

St Just
For many centuries St Just consisted of little more than a few granite houses huddled around a parish church and the Plen an Gwary, where the annual mystery plays were performed. Beyond the narrow streets, small fields set amongst downland stretched out to a rugged coast where local fishermen worked the dark Atlantic waters. Between the 1830s and the 1850s, however, over 5,000 people flocked to this area, to work in what were fast becoming the richest mines in Cornwall. Hundreds of granite cottages were built during these years but the boom was short-lived. By the last years of the century, the local mines had collapsed in the face of foreign competition and its workforce had emigated in droves and St Just had sunk back into quiet obscurity. But the local spirit is strong and St Just is once again a thriving small town whose community is as varied and distinctive as the unique landscape which surrounds it. The international importance of the St Just mining landscape has been recognised by its inclusion as a key part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.