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22 heritage places49 stories

Plantation Country

Plantation Country
Plantation Country
Heritage places

Places to see in this region

Grand Hotel Nuwara Eliya: A Postcard from Old Ceylon

Grand Hotel Nuwara Eliya

Plantation Country
Queen Elizabeth II in Nuwara Eliya: A Royal Walk Through Holy Trinity Church in 1954

Holy Trinity Church,NuwaraEliya

Plantation Country
The Holloways of Mount Franion: A British Planter Family in Old Ceylon

Mount Frenion Manor by Seven Angels

Plantation Country
Broughton Bungalow: A Forgotten Plantation House in Poonagala

Broughton Bungalow,Poonagala

Plantation Country
St Margaret’s Church of Kotagala: The Little Stone Church That Watched Coffee Country Become Tea Country

St Margaret’s Church of Kotagala

Plantation Country
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Old Ceylon stories

Stories from this region

Prince Philip at Pedro Estate: The Royal Visit of 1954

When Prince Philip Visited Pedro Estate: The Royal Visit That Became Part of Ceylon Tea History in 1954

Story

In April 1954, amid the mist-covered tea plantations of Nuwara Eliya, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, made a visit that would become an enduring chapte…

Kotugodella Fort: Forgotten Portuguese Outpost in Uva

Kotugodella Fort: The Forgotten Portuguese Outpost Beneath the Tea Country of Old Ceylon

Story

Kotugodella Fort Sri Lanka | Long before the railway climbed through Idalgashinna and the hills of Ceylon were covered in tea, these mountains witnessed a ve…

Tea Estate Footpaths: Forgotten Paths of Old Ceylon

The Forgotten Footpaths of Old Ceylon’s Tea Estates

Story

Long before the hill country became a landscape admired by tourists, its narrow footpaths were the everyday roads of plantation life. An old Ceylon postcard …

Holyrood Estate Talawakelle: Old Ceylon Bungalow

Holyrood Estate, Talawakelle: An Old Ceylon Bungalow and a Name That Echoes Scotland

Story

An Old Bungalow in the Hills of Talawakelle Holyrood Estate Talawakelle | There is something about the old estate bungalows of Ceylon that makes them diff…

All Saints’ Church Maskeliya: Old Stone Church

All Saints’ Church, Maskeliya: The Old Stone Church and the People Who Never Left

Story

An Old Stone Church in the Tea Country All Saints’ Church Maskeliya | There is something about the old churches of Sri Lanka’s hill country that makes you…