Advent is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Advent

There are great places to visit near Advent including some great hiking areas, country parks, towns, hills, villages, historic buildings and airports.

The area close to Advent boasts some of the best hiking areas including Tehidy.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are great places to visit near Advent if you like country parks.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are great places to visit near Advent if you like towns.

There are a several good hills in the area around Advent like Kit Hill Country Park.

Advent has some unmissable villages nearby like Cremyll, and Botallack.

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is one of Advent's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Advent.

The area around Advent features a number of interesting airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Advent History

There are some historic monuments around Advent:

• Iron Age defended settlement 170m north west of Cargurra
• Motte and bailey castle at Boscastle
• Wayside cross 660m north of Basil Farm
• Holy Well 100m north east of St David's church
• Five bowl barrows south of Newton Farm forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Cross 470m north of Lambrenny
• Bowl barrow 250m north west of Newpark
• Leskernick stone alignment
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Earthwork on Hill Down 500yds (450m) WSW of Tresparrett Posts
• Cross 410m north east of Tregrylls
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Round called Castle Goff
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Motte castle known as Bossiney Castle
• Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning Hill
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Anderton Mill Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m north of the church
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• Round barrow W of Dozmary Pool
• Blacktor Downs irregular aggregate field system and clearance cairn
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Medieval long-house with adjacent enclosure 1.44km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Forrabury Cross, 40m SSW of Forrabury church
• Round barrow cemetery including Tich Barrow 730m north east of Trehane Pool
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Three barrows 550m ENE of Cansford
• Medieval wayside cross head 75m east of Newpark
• Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 625m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm
• Leskernick south stone circle
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• Temple Old Bridge with adjacent ford and causeway
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Wayside cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m south of the church
• Rock art at Rocky Valley, 150m north of Trevillett Mill
• Trevalga Cross in Trevalga churchyard
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Two Bronze Age settlements, associated field enclosures, small cairns, a cist and a propped stone on the south and western slopes of Leskernick Hill
• Six cairns on Buttern Hill
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• King Arthur's Hall
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Wayside cross 110m SSW of Youlstone
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Platform cairn 460m SW of Colquite Farm
• Leskernick north stone circle
• Platform cairn on Priddacombe Downs
• Cairn 485m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Medieval longhouse settlement (known locally as Lamlavery), and an associated field system
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Bowl barrow 660m north east of Tresoke
• Three bowl barrows, 60m and 250m south and 500m south west of Nettings Park
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Medieval wayside cross at Fenterleigh crossroads, 750m south-east of Bossiney
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Stone hut circle 525m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Two bowl barrows 660m south west of Whitehill Cottage, forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Two platform cairns centred 485m SW of Colquite Farm
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Iron Age defended settlement 425m west of Trebray
• Platform cairn 450m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Medieval wayside cross 320m south west of Higher Trevivian
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Early medieval decorated and inscribed wayside cross shaft and base on Waterpit Down, 250m WSW of Hallwell Barton Bungalow
• Bowl barrow called Condolden Barrow
• Bowl barrow 490m SSW of Tregatherall Farm
• Barrow 90m E of Trelay Farm
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Wayside cross in Lesnewth churchyard
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Deserted medieval settlement 1125m WNW of Canaglaze
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Tregatheral Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Two bowl barrows 625m south of Greystone Farm
• Bowl barrow 700m east of Tregray Farm
• Wayside cross 620m south west of Basil Farm
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Round (or petal) cairn on the summit of Leskernick Hill
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Four Hole Cross, 200m north of Lord's Waste Farm
• Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Unenclosed hut circle settlement, field boundaries, enclosure and cairn on Blacktor Downs
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Ring cairn and two kerbed cairns on Bray Down
• Two bowl barrows 595m north west of Belah Park Farm
• Bowl barrow 110m north of Whitehill Farm forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown