Tresco
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Tresco, UK, is the second largest island of Scillonia. It offers an astonishing variety of scenery, from the rugged granite outcrops and heathland of the wild north coast to to the magnificent shell-strewn beaches in the east and south. The variety of its scenary and geomorphology is in part down to the effects of the last ice age, when the Devensian ice sheet clipped the north side of the island leaving deformation till deposits.
There are two ancient castles to the north of New Grimsby harbour. In the centre of the island are cottages and farmland, a shop and sub-post office, the New Inn and the Island Hotel, and the famous sub-tropical Abbey Gardens.
The entire island of Tresco belongs to The Duchy of Cornwall and is leased to the Dorrian-Smith estate.
External Links
Tresco Estate (http://www.tresco.co.uk)
References
Van Der Meer, Menzies & Rose, 2003, Subglacial till: the deforming glacier bed, In: Quaternary Science Reviews Vol 22, pp 1659-1685.