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Milton's Temple, the Amphitheatre, Mount Edgcumbe - A small valley garden overlooking Plymouth Sound with a shingle beach, a series of ponds and Milton's Temple. This is a circular Ionian temple, built around 1755 and has a plaque inscribed with lines from the poem Paradise Lost. Early plantings of camellias are found in the area.
Milton's Temple