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Castle Combe
The prettiest village in England

Trewartha Close
I discovered this street on a trip to Cornwall in 1998 while doing research for That Summer Place. My maiden name is Trewartha, so yes, like the picture says, there is, ah, a Trewartha close by.

Wheelhouse
During the tin mining days of Cornwall, these wheelhouses dotted the land. Now that Kernow (Cornish for Cornwall) has just a few mines open many of these wheelhouses have been sold off and converted into homes.

Rodda's Clotted Cream
"The Cream of Cornwall"
On July 29th, 1981 at the wedding
of H.R.H. The Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
it marked the first time in over one hundred years
since the last wedding of a Duke of Cornwall.
For, at the age of three, Prince Charles became the Duke of Cornwall
on the Queen's accession to the throne.

Rodda's Clotted Cream was the only clotted cream served at the Royal Wedding Breakfast.

 

Cornish Crest
The fifteen balls are said to represent fifteen bezants, (Byzantine gold coins), said to have been the ransom to the Saracens for the release of the Earl of Cornwall in the ninth century. The motto "One and All" is said to commemorate the voluntary efforts of the Cornish people to raise this ransom. The fisherman and tin miner represent what were Cornwall's major industries. The bird is the Cornish Chough, which has recently made a comeback in Cornwall.
Cornish Clotted Cream and the Rodda Family
It is said that clotted cream is made nowhere in the world
but in Cornwall, Devon, Brittany and Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon).
The art of making this "food of the gods" as Gladstone once described it,
was possibly exchanged with the Phoenicians when they came to trade for tin about 500 B.C.
Like so many farmers in Cornwall, the Rodda family often had a bowl of Channel Island milk gently cooking on the range,
so that they could offer the traveller a dish of delicious,
golden clotted cream with a newly baked scone or freshly picked strawberries.
Realizing that their cream was much sought-after,
the kitchen cooking for friends grew into a full-time business
now being one of the largest independent creameries in Cornwall
but still run the traditional family way.

The Roddas are a wonderful family. Let Julie know if you want some of their clotted cream delivered to you!

A. E. Rodda & Son
The Creamery
Scorrier, Cornwall TR16 5BU