A 17th century National Trust house and garden in Cornwall has reopened to the public after it was closed for a year due to a conservation project. Dirt and discolouration was cleaned from the ceiling ...

THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS'. LANHYDROCK HOUSE. Joel Gascoyne, the maker of this map, was one of the first to accurately map Cornwall. The atlas is a ...

One leg conceals an electricity cable, which leads to a socket for a food processor. A feature of Lanhydrock’s kitchen that Mr Hodgson didn’t copy is the cooling system, which used water from the ...