Menabilly, home of the author Dapne du Maurier.
Here she wrote "Rebecca", where she says the enchanted woods of the Gribben headland inspired her. The blood red Rhodendrens were in bloom when the newly married de Winters returned to Manderley in early Spring . Menabilly also featured in "The Kings General" set in the Civil War and which was based on the memoirs of her heroine Honor Harris . There is a plaque to commemorate Honor in Tydwardreath Church. Menabilly has been owned since it was built by the Rashleigh family in about 1600. The roundheads really did sack Menabilly. Jonathan Rashleigh (1591-1675) who finished building Menabilly was with the King when Essex and the Parliamentarian army occupied Fowey. When the Roundheads later surrendered, Essex escaped by boat to Plymouth, Jonathan returned to find Menabilly sacked. More recently when a buttress was demolished in the courtyard of Menabilly the skeleton of a young man dressed as a Cavalier was found bricked up in a small chamber.
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