Wishing you were here
Testimonials from visitors to Trewince holiday homes

Visitors to Trewince Manor holiday homes would love to share their experiences, but also want to keep their idyllic paradise secret.

from Keith Wheatley

Inside every British holidaymaker, over-stressed at the airport or late for the Channel ferry lurks another person. This inner, younger, self would probably rather be on holiday in an Enid Blyton novel.

Here, no journey involves more than a couple of hours gentle motoring. Every gin-clear rock pool contains a starfish. Crab sandwiches are always on the Inn menu. It would have to be Cornwall, of course. It sounds impossible, a daydream at a Gatwick check-in queue. But a few years ago my family and I stumbled across just such a tiny piece of Blyton-land and have been going back ever since.

Trewince Manor is on the farthest finger of the Roseland Peninsula, so shut around by river and sea that it is almost an island. The acres of gardens and woodlands around the creeper-clad granite house shelter many varied species.

Tenants of the solidly-comfortable timber lodges enjoy their verandahs and views down to the gentle, sheltered Towan beach. In the woods between here and Mill Creek, badgers shuffle by. Non-affluent windsurfers, drawn to the spot by Trewince's private jetty opening on to a calm sheltered estuary share the landing point with pairs of resident herons.

"Everyone who comes here sees Trewince differently," said Peter Heywood, proprietor with his wife Liz since 1985. "Even we find it hard to pin down exactly what makes it such a special place but we're not the only ones who feel it."

from Professor Norman, Victoria, Australia

We write to place on record our opinion that Trewince Manor is a most outstanding facility. We selected Trewince on the basis of our own research. It was one of but two resorts in England that met the conditions of providing the same high standards of facilities, space, equipment and environmental setting that is offered by our resort at Port Macquarie in Australia.

While we are economists by training and profession, we are also property developers, owners, renovators and designers, in England and Australia. We put Trewince thoroughly under the microscope. Its design and finishing was excellent. We found the location, facilities and setting of Trewince ideal and believe it would remain as such for people with a wide range of interests that span walking, visiting gardens and attractions in Cornwall, or simply resting. Its commanding views of coastline, farms and shipping conjoin with the feeling that you are part of a gracious establishment.

From Howard Wilkie

Trewince is like nowhere else, with its varied vistas of coast and country, the gentle vibrancy of the natural world and the warmth of its welcome. The impeccably maintained estate fits perfectly into its surroundings, a world away from the rush of modern life yet easily accessible. For us it is the home of our happiest holidays, somewhere very special, even a meeting place of heaven and earth.