The train trip took 2 hours.  The train goes to a couple of stations and the engine changes from the front to the back and back again so that is what takes the time, not the journey.  It was fun anyway to ride the train and look at the scenery.

When we returned to Bodmin General we got into the car and drove to Llanhydrock, a magnificent country house set on a large estate of woods and parkland.  When we arrived we discovered that the house wasn’t open, just the gardens and the church so we wandered around all of that and visited the very pretty little church.

Llanhydrock is essentially a Victorian house which evolved from a much earlier house dating back to the 14th century.  Much of the house was destroyed in a great fire in the 1800's.  It was  rebuilt and later after many years where is was unoccupied it was extensively renovated and now it has 49 rooms open to the public by the National Trust.