Paradise found

A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF A MOST TREASURED SPACE

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encounter in the early 90s. Tim Smit, an archaeologist turned music producer, had moved to Cornwall.

He met John Willis, a Tremayne descendant who had just inherited the land, and together they began exploring what remained.

Thirteen of Heligan's gardeners went to war and only four returned

What they found stunned them. Under the overgrowth were walls of espaliered fruit trees, rusting tools hanging in place, and the Thunderbox Room, with the names still faintly visible.