Godolphin Estate

The ancient tin and copper mines around Godolphin Hill lie within the former bounds of the Godolphin family estate. Godolphin House itself (seventeenth century, Grade I) is one of Cornwall’s most architecturally important houses. Sir Francis Godolphin (Lord of Godolphin from 1575 to 1608) was a mines adventurer. He earned a national reputation for pioneering new methods of tin mining and processing in his mines, a tradition which endured there until the middle of the eighteenth century. From 1786 the estate was owned by the Duke of Leeds and his successors.