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Many people will know beautiful and romantically situated Caerhays Castle in Cornwall, not far from St Austell, its Nash tower and turrets rising above that lovely valley to look down on the beach below. A very appropriate setting for the poet’s Cornish ancestry, though not many people know about that side to him. The Castle was built by his Trevanion cousins, who practically bankrupted themselves in doing so and sold it to the Williams family, who created there the finest garden in Cornwall.
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Rowse, A.L. (1975). Byron’s Cornish Ancestry. In: Jump, J.D. (eds) Byron. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02482-7_1
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