Mount Edgcumbe House and Park

The garden has a superb site, across the Sound from Plymouth, on the Rame peninsula. It has cliff walks, trees, rocks, ruins. Uvedale Price himself saw it as 'picturesque'. In the nineteenth century, French and Italian gardens were added. Loudon, in 1842, remarked that 'we never before looked down on the sea, on shipping, and on a large town, all at our feet, from such a stupendous height. The effect on the mind is sublime in the highest degree, but yet belended with the beautiful. There was something to us quite unearthly in the feeling it created'. Samuel Pepys wrote of 'The most beautiful place as ever was seen' (1683).