The  Royal Cornwall agricultural association  held their annual  exhibition   this week  on  the  delight-fully-situated estate of Nansloe.   There were three sites named early in the year which were in most respects suitable, and over two of these there were some contention. On Craskin estate two fields com-manding a southern aspect were mentioned. Mr Roskruge also offered to accommodate the associa-tion  on the barton of Trenethick.   The  objection to this offer —that  the fields were on the Wendron road from the railway-station   and thus far removed from the town—proved fatal.

Nansloe was the other claimant. The fields which form part  of the estate of Nansloe,   in which last year’s exhibition  of  the   Helston agricultural ex-change was held, were considered by the farmers of the neighbourhood, and, indeed, by the thousands of visitors who were present on the show-ground on Whit-Monday,   1888,  to  be  exceedingly   well-adap-ted for  much larger exhibitions  of  a  similar  charac-ter.   Hence the committee appointed by the Royal Cornwall  to allot this site   for the Helston exhibition had no difficulty in the matter of their choice. 

The show-ground consists of two large fields situated adjacent to the road lying from Meneage-street, Helston,  to the Meneage district.     It is hemmed in by the cemetery on one side and by the picturesque avenue which leads to Nansloe-house on the the other.

Slightly  undulating   in  the direction of Nansloe vale, the showground does not command a view of either the town   or the celebrated lake  which lies at the foot of the vale—the Loe pool.   Clumps of trees intervene on the one hand and a tract of rising ground on the other.      Yet if  woodland  and flowery mead can relieve the eye no visitor to Helston exhibition need go away complaining. 

The barton of Nansloe is a very ancient one. With the neighbouring barton of Trenethick it belonged, soon after the Conquest, to the Earl of Cornwall. Helston,  at that time,  was under their patronage, and a castle   ( which stood where the present bowling-green  now  adds to the beauty  of  Coinage - hall-street ) was their favourite place of residence. 

Their steward:—the Seneschalls—resided at Tre- nethick,   and another old Cornish family of repute-- the De Trevilles—were  in possession of Nansloe. They held Nansloe and adjacent estates on the very peculiar tenure of providing a boat, nets and other fishing appliances to be at the disposal of the Earls of Cornwall   whenever  they wished to go a-fishing on the waters  of  the  calm  and  tree-fringed Loe-Pool. We are not told which of the Cornish earls took advantage of their claim.    Probably  the  visits were so frequent  that  in  those remote days  that no mention them was necessary. 

From the Treville family Nansloe passed through various hands ; till event-ually it became the property, by purchase, of the noted Robinson family.   The Robinsons previously lived at Cadgwith, Landewed-nack, and Bochym ; but about 200 years ago a part of that family made Nansloe their home. After the Robinsons left Nansloe Mr Thomas P. Tyacke, for some years, occupied the mansion and grounds. Mr Adolphus W. Young,    the M.P. for Helston from 1861 to 1880, purchased the estate during his connection with the borough.     And,  within the past decade,  it has again changed hands,  the present owner being Mr Henry Rogers.