27th March is a BIG day for Sandhill House Country Retreat in the Tamar Valley

D-Day is almost here! We are just thrilled that on 27 March a fantastic book will be launched celebrating the top 50 (see below) most significant Great Houses of Cornwall and Sandhill House is included as the last undiscovered great house of Cornwall. We are on page 150 and one of the houses you can actually stay in and be part of its history. 

Brilliantly researched and written by Barry Gamble, a world renowned World Heritage Site expert, the historic information is succinct and the photographs just brilliant. Even better it is perfect for tourists planning to visit because it's just the right size to fit in a suitcase - we have just sent a copy back to Australia with a guest (yes we got our order before the 27th!). 

Sandhill House B&B, in the Tamar Valley, was one of the home of John Williams, who at one time owned 33% of the mines in Cornwall and up until recently the picture on the left was the only picture of the house in the public domain. It was taken by Barry out of helicopter at about the same time of year as now in April 2011. In another week the daffodils will look just like that in the Tamar Orchard Barns' garden. 

The picture above was the brochure photo when the house was sold - to us!!!  

Other Williams family properties covered in the book are Scorrier House, Burncoose and Caerhayes.

Cornwall’s Great Houses and Gardens

Barry Gamble

Cornwall’s great houses and gar­dens col­lect­ively con­trib­ute sub­stan­tially to the dis­tinct­ive char­ac­ter of our rich and diverse his­toric envir­on­ment. They have fas­cin­at­ing stor­ies to tell and, in gen­eral, are now more access­ible to the pub­lic than ever before. This book is a guide to fifty of the most sig­ni­fic­ant prop­er­ties, from Tresco to the Tamar, with stun­ning pho­to­graphs – includ­ing aer­ial views never pre­vi­ously pub­lished – and author­it­at­ive text.

After a career in industry, Barry Gamble entered the spe­cial­ist field of her­it­age inter­pret­a­tion in the 1990s. This takes him all over the world, and he con­tin­ues to work reg­u­larly and extens­ively on a vari­ety of sub­jects in Corn­wall and the Isles of Scilly. He was a mem­ber of the Bid Team for the Corn­wall and West Devon Min­ing Land­scape World Her­it­age Site as prin­cipal author of the nom­in­a­tion to UNESCO’s World Her­it­age List (see Cornish Min­ing World Her­it­age), and is author of the Pocket Corn­wall books Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth and Cornish Mines: Gwen­nap to the Tamar.

Cornwall’s Great Houses and Gar­dens is pub­lished in our Pocket Corn­wall series.

• Intro­duc­tion
• About this Book
• Abbey Garden, Tresco
• Treng­wain­ton
• Trewid­den
• St Michael’s Mount
• Clow­ance
• Godol­phin
• Pen­rose Estate
• Tre­varno
• Trelowar­ren
• Bochym Manor
• Pen­jer­rick
• Tre­bah
• Glen­dur­gan
• Car­win­ion
• Pen­warne
• Tregoth­nan
• Trelis­sick
• Enys
• Carclew
• Burn­coose
• Scor­rier
• Tregul­low
• Pen­greep
• Trevince
• Tehidy
• Kil­liow
• Tre­withener
• Trerice
• Chyver­ton
• Prideaux Place
• Caer­hays Castle
• Heligan
• Men­a­billy
• Tre­gre­han
• Place
• Bocon­noc
• Pen­car­row
• Lan­hyd­rock
• Glynn House
• Rosecrad­doc Manor
• Tre­bartha
• Wer­ring­ton Park
• Sandhill
• Cote­hele
• Pen­til­lie
• Catch­french
• Port Eliot
• Ince Castle
• Ant­ony
• Mount Edgcumbe

ISBN 97809067207901st edi­tion
Paper­back
176 pages
137 col­our pho­to­graphs
27.03.14
150 x 153 mm
£6.95