Sally Hamilton visits Menabilly, a country mansion that's 'hidden from prying eyes' among private woodland near the pretty Cornish town of Fowey. Du Maurier rented the estate for 25 years.

Hilary Macaskill makes a pilgrimage to the beautiful landscapes that inspired Daphne du Maurier to write Rebecca. From her beloved house Menabilly to Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, the author is ...

Polkerris John Nettles, actor, grew up in St Austell Up past the pretty alms cottages at the end of Par beach, along the narrow cliff path towards Daphne du Maurier's house, Menabilly, and Gribbin ...

The author lived in several houses in Cornwall including 'Menabilly'. Homepage. Accessibility links. ... Her work was inspired by her love of Cornwall but one of her homes, 'Menabilly' near Fowey, ...

Cornwall's mining and mineral wealth triggered the development of many fine mineral collections. Perhaps the most famous is that which belonged to Philip Rashleigh of Menabilly near Fowey.

We arrived at Menabilly in time for Christmas in 1943, and the change to the house from the first time I’d seen it was amazing. All the ivy had been cut back and the windows mended.

Considering the house's importance, du Maurier based it in a place she knew in real life. It is called Menabilly, a grand estate in Cornwall, in the southwest of England.

Christopher Ondaatje steps into the romantic getaway in Cornwall where the aspiring author wrote her first novel ‘The Loving Spririt’ Long before Rebecca, and long before Menabilly (Manderley in ...

Just as the sprawling house of Manderley cast a spell over the second Mrs de Winter, so too did its real life inspiration, ... her own Cornwall home, Menabilly. She came to live in it in a ...