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Mount Edgcumbe, seat of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Maker par., Cornwall, on the peninsula between Plymouth Sound and the Hamoaze, opposite Plymouth; is a castellated building of 1550, and is famous for its gardens (Italian, French, and English) and its grounds, which occupy almost the whole of the peninsula.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "seat" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
| Administrative units: | Maker Parish Cornwall Ancient County |
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