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Fiona McGowan waxes lyrical about Cornwall’s multifaceted and beautiful Mount’s Bay.
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e’re on holiday – a family break. True to form, the children, both complaining of ‘agonising’ sore throats, take hours to get to sleep, having insisted at dinner on bringing their desserts to our suite, where they smothered chocolate all over their faces and zombied out in front of the TV. I’m lying awake at three in the morning, listening to the sea pounding on the beach and the quiet snuffles of the now slumbering children. It is soothing – finally. The Godolphin Arms in Marazion has been owned by St Aubyn Estates for over 200 years, and was refurbished in 2014. It is planted slap-bang in front of one of the most iconic locations in Cornwall, if not the country. St Michael’s Mount is the crowning glory in the giant sweep of Mount’s Bay, with Marazion at one end and Mousehole at the other. In between lie Penzance and Newlyn – each community with its own personality, history and charm. Marazion certainly has the greater tourist influx; its tiny winding streets are rammed with people and cars from Easter to autumn. St Aubyn Estates, owned by Lord and Lady St Levan, has been part of the landscape for 600 years. It comprises 5,000 acres and
PHOTO: MIKE SEARLE
MANOR | Late Spring 2018
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