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Article: Sea views garden is an earthly paradise
- Article from:
- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2007
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Coleton Fishacre is one of the Westcountry's best attempts at
emulating paradise. This estate, hidden away in a secluded corner of
the South Devon coast, seems to have everything - sea views, gorgeous
gardens and lashings of style.
I seem to remember as a boy catching just a glimpse of the
glorious pile, hidden high above among the trees of its hanging
gardens, as we chugged by on a pleasure cruise.
Back then, it was still a rich man's seaside bolthole and a humble
little chap like me could only wonder at the obvious wealth of it
all. It seemed a lordly place indeed - a sort of untouchable pantheon
to which I'd never aspire.
Little did I know that, 40 years later, I'd be striding about this ...