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3.2 mi 50.7236, -3.5343 Turn l. into Paul St. Carparks are on both sides of the street at that
point.

EXETER

Penzance to Plymouth

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From Penzance you’ll travel through Falmouth, Truro and St Austell to Plymouth.

A word of warning: Don’t try to do that on a holiday weekend. It’s madness unleashed. There
are just thousands of people in thousands of cars jamming every road for miles around.

Plymouth

The most important city in Devon. It was from here that adventurers such as Drake, Cook and the
Pilgrim Fathers, set out on their momentous voyages to find new worlds.

You can stand where the Pilgrim Fathers stepped into the boats that took them to America.

You can walk along Plymouth Hoe where Sir Francis Drake is said to have continued playing a
game of bowls having been warned of the approach of the Spanish Armada. He remarked that
there was plenty of time to finish the game and still beat the Spanish. It’s probably apocryphal –
but it is a great yarn. It’s also said that the reason he was in no hurry was because he knew the
tide was not right for putting to sea.

Useful websites:

http://www.devon-online.com/

http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/

Attractions:

Gardens

Trengwainton Gardens The garden in its present format, was started in the early part of the 20th
century by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edward Bolitho, after he inherited the rambling Victorian house
and grounds in 1925. The family acquired Trengwainton in 1857 and it is known that a house has
been established here since the 16th century. Its location close to the tip of Lands End, where it is
protected from the harshness of winter by the warming effects of the Gulf Stream and the
southerly aspect, creates a wonderfully mild climate, which experiences very few harsh winters.

The gentle micro-climate of this region, creates the conditions needed to cultivate varieties of
shrub, tender and half-hardy trees that cannot be grown in the open anywhere else in England.

The Eden Project is a dramatic global garden housed in tropical biomes that nestle in a crater the
size of 30 football pitches with a worldwide reputation, and recognised by the British Travel
Awards as the Best UK Leisure Attraction 5 years running (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015).
More than just a huge, tropical garden, Eden is a gateway into the relationships between plants
and people, and an insight into the story of mankind’s dependence on plant life. Not only a visitor