Owner chronicles: In forgotten Cornwall

This is a land mostly depicted by golden-sand beaches – where children run like wild things towards the shore, empty nesters savour cones of raspberry ripple from striped deckchairs and surfers dance across sapphire waters. But there is so much more to Cornwall waiting to be discovered.

A land whose storybook woodlands, deep valleys and beautifully barren moorlands are yearning to tell their stories too. Approaching this 400-year-old farmhouse, enveloped by soaring evergreens beside its own private slice of river in the Tamar Valley, all-familiar visions of sandy toes and salty skin quickly melt away.

From the owners

“To us, this is heaven. An unspoilt, forgotten corner of Cornwall.”