At the boat dock at New Grimsby Quay I set out in the direction of the family seat, Tresco Abbey.

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The candidates on St Agnes, Tresco and Bryher have all been elected unopposed.

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Tresco is certainly the only place in the Scilly Islands where you might find the air alive with sporting rifle fire.

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Because, let there be no doubt about it, Tresco is posh.

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Merchant banker Augustus Smith bought the lease from the Duchy of Cornwall back in the 1830s, and his descendants, the Dorrien-Smiths, now run the Tresco Estate as a family business.

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