[1] The 885 acres (3.58 km2) country park is on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar.

The park has been famous since the 18th century, when the Edgcumbe family created formal gardens, temples, follies and woodlands around the Tudor house.

Specimen trees, such as Sequoiadendron giganteum,[2] stand against copses which shelter a herd of wild fallow deer.

The South West Coast Path runs through the park for nine miles (14 km) along the coastline.

Several larvae of the beautiful pearl (Agrotera nemoralis), were found by members of the Cornish branch of Butterfly Conservation on European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) during August 2013.