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ST MICHAEL’S MOUNT

prison wouldn’t be your first thought for a family home, yet that is precisely what happened when Colonel John St Aubyn bought St Michael’s Mount in 1659. He had been involved in the tidal island’s attempted capture by the anti-royalist Roundheads during the

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