If you’re entering from the High Street Ken entrance, look for the Trafalgar Way plaque on the left hand side wall outside the park. It commemorates the route taken by officials to get news about the Battle of Trafalgar and Lord Nelson’s death from Falmouth to the Admiralty.

I hadn’t previously heard of the Trafalgar Way. Reading up about it made me think of one of my favourite novels – The Three Musketeers – and all the long journeys on horseback that were a necessary part of the adventures. These days it would be a simple matter of a ship to shore call or dialling a mobile.