This National Trust property is well worth a visit to learn about the lives of the wealthy landowners who created this impressive house amid spectacular Cornish countryside. Lanhydrock is another stately home close to Bodmin, which featured in Question of Love and Cliffs of Love. Photo by Gareth James and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Here, you can clamber down the steep steps to the beach and walk among the outcrops that have become well-known to viewers of the Pilcher TV films. Bedruthan Steps is also known by its Cornish name Carnewas. Regular flyovers show the stunning beauty of the sea stacks on this stretch of coast managed by the National Trust. It is estimated that around 40% of all visitors to Prideaux Place are from Germany and the attraction has employed several German speaking guides just to assist with busloads of tourists who visit daily throughout the year. Many of the scenes are set in the grand rooms of this beautiful stately home or in the Deer Park and extensive grounds close to the Cornish coast. Padstow’s Prideaux Place has appeared in numerous Rosamunde Pilcher films. In memory of the widely respected author, we’ve put together a list of must-see Cornish destinations forever intertwined with her stories. Once here, many join special tours where fans are transported from one Rosamunde Pilcher hotspot to the next. Today, an estimated quarter of a million people from Germany visit the county each year. Many of the scenes for these films have been shot on location in Cornwall and images of the beautiful Cornish landscape have been beamed into the homes of millions of German viewers on Sunday evenings ever since.
Since 1993 the German television broadcaster ZDF has created an astonishing 111 Rosamunde Pilcher films. She is best-known for her novel The Shell Seekers – a family saga set between Cornwall and London, from the Second World War up to the late Eighties.Īlthough her time has passed, the prolific novelist has created a lasting legacy for Cornwall as hordes of tourists, many of them from Germany, flock to the county each year to visit the locations depicted in her books and in the television films shown on German TV. After marrying, the writer moved to Scotland but continued to use Cornwall as a setting for many of her stories. Rosamunde Pilcher grew up in Lelant near St Ives and published her first novel when she was only 19.
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