Qualla: Caerhays Castle https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/t/caerhays-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Caerhays Castle https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle Caerhays Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle/ Photo credit Claudiu Bichescu, CC BY-SA 3.0. John Bettesworth-Trevanion wanted a castle, so he hired the most fashionable architect of Regency England. John Nash - the man who would later design Buckingham Palace and Regent Street - drew up plans for a semi-castellated country house between 1807 and 1810, on a site half a mile south of the village of St Michael Caerhays, overlooking Porthluney Cove on Cornwall's south coast. Bettesworth-Trevanion got his Norman-looking castle of rough quarried stone. He also got an unmanageable bill. He fled to Paris, unable to pay his creditors, and the house stood empty for over a decade, the roof failing, the walls soaking, the gardens reverting to wild. Caerhays might have been a ruin. Instead, the man who bought it from the creditors had a richer family fortune and a longer view.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/t/caerhays-castle-wp/gbut-caerhays-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caerhays Castle: Norman Looks, Regency Bones https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. Caerhays is what the Georgians called a mock castle - a country house dressed in defensive clothing, with crenellations and towers but no military function. The exterior was built of rough stone quarried from the immediate neighbourhood, giving the walls a colour that matches the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/t/caerhays-castle-wp/gbut-caerhays-castle-norman-looks-regency-bones.mp3 0:06 2 full Caerhays Castle: Six Centuries of Hands https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. The earliest record of the place-name is Karihaes in 1259, with Carihays appearing in 1379 - the original meaning of the name is lost. In the early Middle Ages the manor belonged to the Arundell family, who held estates across Cornwall. Around 1379 it passed by marriage to the Tr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/t/caerhays-castle-wp/gbut-caerhays-castle-six-centuries-of-hands.mp3 0:06 3 full Caerhays Castle: The Plant Hunter https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. When John Charles Williams inherited Caerhays in 1880 he was eighteen years old. He became one of the great Edwardian plantsmen and the principal reason Caerhays is internationally famous today. Williams sponsored plant-hunting expeditions to China, then opening to Western botani...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/t/caerhays-castle-wp/gbut-caerhays-castle-the-plant-hunter.mp3 0:06 4 full Caerhays Castle: 120 Acres of Spring https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. The castle garden covers almost 120 acres, traversed by four named routes and connected by trails, grassy paths and steps. Six hundred varieties of plants grow there, including some of the oldest cultivated magnolias in Britain. Late February to early May is the spectacular seaso...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/t/caerhays-castle-wp/gbut-caerhays-castle-120-acres-of-spring.mp3 0:06 5 full Caerhays Castle: On Film https://qualla.com/caerhays-castle/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. Caerhays has done service as a film set more than once. The 1979 BBC miniseries adaptation of Rebecca used the castle for its Manderley exterior shots - it stands in for Daphne du Maurier's haunted, doomed Cornish house with very little adjustment. Tim Burton's 2016 film Miss Per...

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