Places of Interest

Roche

The village of Roche has an interesting history with both Celtic and Saxon connections. At one end of the village stands a small church on a rock, dedicated to St. Michael in the year 1409. This curious medieval structure hangs fifty feet above the granite on its rocky perch.

According to local legend it was at one time occupied by a hermit leper, whose devoted daughter Gunnet would bring him water from a holy well, which is over a mile away. Nearby stands the church of St. Gomonda, which occupies a site with both Celtic and Saxon connections, founded by the pre Norman "Lord of Tremodrett".

Other gardens of interest

Uncovering and recovering The Lost Gardens of Heligan began when Tim Smit and friend John Nelson hacked their way into a bramble choked estate garden in 1991 to find a decayed but otherwise sleeping beauty where time had stood still for seventy years.

The development of the Eden Project is rooted in the experience of the Lost Gardens of Heligan. In 1991 they began to clear, repair and breath life back into the largest garden restoration in Europe. The beauty of the gardens is now ready to be seen. Well worth a visit, many visitors have commented how it is as worthy of a visit as Eden if not more so depending upon your horticultural interests.

Just a short distance from Charlestown are Pine Lodge Gardens, described in The Times last year as a "wonderland". The 30-acre estate has a wide range of some 5500 plants, all of which are labelled. In addition to rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias, so familiar in Cornish gardens, there are Mediterranean and southern-hemisphere plants grown for all -year-round interest. The gardens are open from April to Sept, 10am to 5pm, Wednesdays to Sundays.

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