Name: Wellbeing Walk to Mount Edgcumbe.
Start: 2026-02-18T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-18T16:00:00+00:00
Location: University of Plymouth

Join us for a wellbeing walk to Mount Edgcumbe, Britain's Historic Park by the sea.
About this Event

Meet at the Students' Union roof at 11:00am.
We plan to walk from the University to the historic Royal William Yard, then catch the Cremyll Ferry across the River Tamar to the picturesque Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.
While at Mount Edgcumbe we plan to walk the Historic Landscape Walk (approx. 4 miles) taking in some of the landscape treasures and ornamental buildings.
There will be plenty of opportunities during the walk to stop and rest and take pictures.
Please bring your own refreshments.
Travel expenses will be covered.
We plan to return to the university by 4pm.
Please wear suitable footwear for walking and appropriate clothing for the weather conditions.
Please note this walk is not suitable for students with mobility issues.

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ONLY FOR UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH STUDENTS.

Mount Edgcumbe is a place of ancient barrows, mystical woodland, forts and chapels dotted along a remote coastline, above secret beaches and smugglers coves.

Mount Edgcumbe House is the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. Surrounded by formal gardens and set in a Grade I listed landscape, the country park covers 865 acres of the Rame Peninsula in South East Cornwall.

Built nearly 100 years before the Mayflower set sail in 1620, the Tudor style mansion stands at the top of an equally ancient double avenue of trees.

The Edgcumbe family can trace their ancestry back over 600 years. It was a timely match when Piers Edgcumbe married Joan Durnford in the 15th century and thus acquired the land on which Mount Edgcumbe now stands.

It created an opportunity to build a house of a size and stature befitting of an increasingly influential family and placed the family firmly on the main route of travel between Cornwall and the rest of England.

In 1515 King Henry VIII issued a license to empark the lands and over 500 years later descendants of the original herds of fallow deer can be seen roaming in the Deer Park.