Tresco, Scilly - Old Abbey, steps - Gibson real photo postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  The Old Abbey, Tresco, Isles of Scilly - shows the steps and arch - real photo postcard
• Publisher:  James Gibson, Isles of Scilly
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Tresco (Cornish: Enys Skaw,^[1] meaning ""island of elder-trees"") is the second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, England. It is 297 hectares (1.15 sq mi) in size, measuring about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) by 1.75 kilometres (1.09 mi).

In early times one group of islands was in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. King Henry I gave it to Tavistock Abbey which established a priory on Tresco; it was abolished at the Reformation. The priory was given the care of souls in the secular islands by the lord of the fief.^[2] In 1233, a prior here, known as Alan of Cornwall, was made abbot of Tavistock.^[3]

The original name for the island (including Bryher) was the Cornish: Ryn Tewyn meaning promontory of sand-dunes. In 1193 when the island was granted to the abbot of Tavistock by Pope Celestine III the island was known as St. Nicholas's island and by 1305 it is called Trescau (farm of elder-trees). By 1540 this has changed to Iniscaw (island of elder-trees).^[4] The island was named as Trescaw in an 1814 publication.^[5]

The island is administered for the crown by the Duchy of Cornwall^[6] and is leased to the Dorrien-Smith estate, which runs it as a timeshare business. The Dorrien-Smith family (descended from Augustus Smith) held the position of Lord Proprietors of the Scilly Islands between 1834 and 1920.

From 2001 until 2009, the island hosted a marathon run organised in aid of Cystic Fibrosis. The course consists of 7½ laps around the island. The event is always held on the same day as the London Marathon.^[7] Past winners include Dara O'Kearney and Bob Brown

In 2007 a rebuild of the Abbey Farm/Shed area was completed; this area served as RNAS Tresco, a seaplane base during the First World War.^[8] The development included rental cottages, a swimming pool, a health centre and the ""Flying Boat Club"" restaurant.

A variety of scenery is found on the island, including rugged granite outcrops, heathland of the exposed north coast and mainly shell beaches in the east and south. The variety of its scenery and geomorphology is partly a result of the last ice age, where the Devensian ice sheet clipped the north side of the island leaving deformation till deposits.^[9][10]

The main habitations are the villages of New Grimsby and Old Grimsby in central part of the island, where there are a shop and post office, an art gallery, a pub, and a hotel, all of which are owned and run by the Tresco Estate. At the south of the island can be found the sub-tropical Tresco Abbey Gardens, including the Valhalla Figurehead Collection, and Tresco Heliport. There are bathing beaches at Pentle Bay, Appletree Bay, Gimble Porth, Hotel Beach, Green Porth, Gimble Porth, Rushy Porth.^{[citation needed]} Further north are King Charles's Castle and Cromwell's Castle.

Tresco Abbey Gardens are located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. The 17 acre gardens were established by the nineteenth-century proprietor of the islands, Augustus Smith, originally as a private garden within the grounds of the home he designed and built.

Augustus Smith chose Tresco as the site of his home because the site was more or less central in relation to the rest of the islands. It is also close to the original abbey ruins, is near a fresh water pool and overlooks the sand dunes and beach at Carn Near. The area at the time was barren land and the original building, designed by Smith and started in 1835, was small in comparison to the current building. He made additions to the house in 1843 and 1861. The Grade II listed house consists of roughly coursed granite with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Some of the timbers from the 1861 wreck of the Award were used for the panelling and roof of the new dining room, as well as panelling of the rooms Annet, Rosevean and Rosevear.^[1] His successor, Thomas Algernon Smith-Dorrien-Smith added the tower in 1891.^[2][3]

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=tresco

period=post-war (1945 - present)

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number of items=single

size=standard (140x89mm)