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Tregothnan is a house and estate near the village of St Michael Penkivel 3mi south-east of Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom.GeographyLocationTregothnan is located on a hill overlooking an inlet of the Carrick Roads.HistoryThe house and estate is the historic seat of the Boscawen family, Viscounts Falmouth. The original medieval house was ransacked in the 17th century during the English Civil War.The new house was built after 1650. This building was visited and described by Celia Fiennes, a cousin of Hugh Boscawen, the builder. In the 18th century, the house was the home of Admiral Edward Boscawen. In 1818, the house was enlarged by William Wilkins for the fourth Viscount Falmouth and in 1845-8 Lewis Vulliamy rebuilt it for the second Earl of Falmouth.In 1872 the land holdings of Viscount Falmouth, of Mereworth Castle, Maidstone, Kent, were listed in the top ten land holdings in Cornwall, with an estate of 25910acre, 3.41% of the total area of Cornwall.Tregothnan is still managed by the Boscawen family today.