The interiors of this Georgian house were also used, and it makes reappearances in The Red Dress and The Weekend. Prideaux Place at Padstow features in 16 films including End of Summer and Coming Home, while Pencarrow House and Garden near Bodmin is the location of the vineyard in the film English Wine. Those firmly on the Pilcher trail will want to visit some of the stately homes used as filming locations.
Stay in comfort whilst on the trail of novelist Rosamunde Pilcher The stretch of the coast between Chapel Porth and St Agnes Head is dramatic and was used in the filming of the BBC’s Poldark too. Pilcher fans shouldn’t leave Cornwall without visiting a mine ruin or two, and St Agnes Head is the most recognisable from the ZDF series. St Ives itself has also played a role in many of ZDF’s adaptations, with St Nicholas Chapel and Tregenna Castle both featuring. Gwithian Beach, which hugs St Ives Bay (there’s a great view of this gorgeous stretch of sand from Wave Top), was used as a backdrop in many adaptations of Pilcher novels. Discover your own home-from-home in Pilcher’s Cornwall Nearby Mousehole was used as the setting for stories including The Empty House, Snow in April, Another View and Voices in Summer. Every year thousands of enthusiasts – especially from Germany where over 100 of her novels were made into German-language short films – tread in the footsteps of her characters.įor example, The Shell Seekers features the iconic landmarks of St Michael’s Mount and Land’s End, with Penzance and Lamorna also used extensively as filming locations.
Adaptations of her novels were mainly filmed in Cornwall and Devon. Rosamunde Pilcher’s ‘The Shell Seekers’Įven though almost a century has passed since a little girl called Rosamunde spent her formative years here, it’s still possible to see Cornwall through her eyes. Many of Pilcher’s novels can be bought at St Ives Bookseller on Fore Street. They are infused with nostalgia for a way of life which has largely been lost, as Pilcher drew on her childhood experiences of growing up on the coast. Stories such as The Shell Seekers, Coming Home and Summer Awakening powerfully evoke the beauty of the Cornish landscape. Admirers will be pleased to know that many of our St Ives and Carbis Bay cottages and apartments are perfectly located for a visit to ‘Rosamunde Pilcher’s Cornwall.’ Although she moved away to study and work and later lived with her husband in Scotland, her writing is wholeheartedly inspired by Cornwall. Novelist Rosamunde Pilcher was born in Lelant, two miles from St Ives, in 1924.
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