Trevalga

They contacted two leading lawyers who said that a 1959 will drawn up by Gerald Curgenven, the last lord of Trevalga manor and a former pupil of Marlborough College in Wiltshire, bequeathed the hamlet to trustees who were supposed to administer ...

The sale of a historic estate in Cornwall has been suspended because of a dispute over who owns it. Marlborough College believed it was the owner and put the 3,000-acre Trevalga estate between Tintagel and Boscastle up for sale for £10m.

"We're not in the time of the Plantagenets," explodes Peter Pracownik. "It's the 21st century, for Chrissake." Looking out of the window of Trevalga Manor, you wouldn't know it. Jagged coastline, Atlantic breakers, a view to King Arthur's Tintagel ...

Battle for Trevalga chairman Justin Ruscombe-King farms trout in the village. He told the Sunday Telegraph: 'The people who buy these houses in Trevalga will inevitably be property developers who will do them up to sell them to second home owners.

Justin Ruscombe-King, chairman of the Battle for Trevalga group and a trout farmer from the village, said: "We have all seen what has happened to the rest of Cornwall, where houses have been sold to property developers and people from upcountry, and ...