Cotehele

The Edgcumbe family preserved Cotehele as a historic talking-point, rather than as a comfortable family home. Built in medieval times, the current house is mostly Tudor. Make your way through four floors of history to view the collection and learn stories about the family who owned it for 600 years.

The garden at Cotehele covers 14 acres and is filled with colour and beauty in summer.

The quay is a great place to start your exploration of the Cotehele estate. 'Shamrock' is on her cradle and the Edgcumbe tea-room is open for light lunches and drinks.

The estate is open every day from dawn to dusk and your dog is welcome too. There are loads of walking routes through the 1300 acres of countryside, with miles of wooded paths opening up onto views of the river and the surrounding fields.

A peaceful walk along the Morden stream from Cotehele Quay takes you to the nineteenth-century Cotehele Mill. The water wheel turns daily and there are historic workshops to discover as well as modern craftsmen at work in the buildings surrounding the old Mill.

Cotehele’s colourful garden and woodlands are full of birds and wildlife; there are 1,300 acres to cover at this calm oasis, so come along and get ready to explore.

Cotehele covers 1,300 acres of countryside, with woodland, meadows, riverside, industrial ruins and reed beds all providing a wide range of habitats for wildlife.

Once a week between April and September, the rangers at Cotehele walk around the garden and estate measuring the health of the butterfly population.

After a brisk walk you can enjoy a light lunch, a glass of wine, a refreshing drink, or a cream tea in the Edgcumbe on the quay. Four legged friends more than welcome.

Pop into the fifteenth-century barn for lunches, light bites, hot drinks and great cakes. We welcome dogs on leads to join you, so you can take a break with your four-legged friend.

Cotehele Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting and selling the work of West Country artists and craft makers. The summer exhibition, 'Water and Colour', runs from 8 June until the end of October and features work by a number of exciting new artists as well as more established contributors.

The perfect place to find a souvenir of your visit to Cotehele or find that plant you fell in love with in the garden - Cotehele's shop and plant centre are open daily from 10am-5pm. We're proud to say that all the money we raise through sales goes back into the conservation of Cotehele.

'Shamrock' is a lovely old boat built in 1899 in Plymouth and now retired on Cotehele Quay. Routine maintenance revealed she needed major conservation work and now a major restoration project is underway to make her ship-shape again.

We're proud to be part of an association of tourist attractions in Cornwall that, for over 40 years, has been working to provide the best attractions for families and visitors to Cornwall.

Cotehele's toilets are flushed around 200,000 times a year and rising, so we're improving our sewerage system to better deal with this demand in an environmentally-friendly way.