 After a stormy passage including a stop for supplies at the Azores, the Beagle finally reached England on 2 October 1836, and anchored at Falmouth, Cornwall.A plaque now commemorates this arrival point in Falmouth.On the stormy night of 2 October 1836, immediately after arriving in Falmouth, Darwin set off on the mail coach, and arrived late at night on 4 October 1836 at The Mount House, the family home in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.