Black Penquite is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Black Penquite

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

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

Black Penquite has some unmissable country parks nearby like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

There are a several good towns in the Black Penquite area like Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Don't miss Kit Hill Country Park's hills if visiting the area around Black Penquite.

The area around Black Penquite features a number of interesting villages including Cremyll, and Botallack.

Historic Buildings to visit near Black Penquite include Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Black Penquite History

There are some historic monuments around Black Penquite:

• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• 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
• Medieval long-house with adjacent enclosure 1.44km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Cross near Deviock Cottage
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Large multivallate hillfort known as 'Castle Canyke', 375m SSW of Castle Canyke Farmhouse
• Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Wayside cross in St Bartholomew's churchyard
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Bury Castle
• Platform cairn on Priddacombe Downs
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Round called Castle Goff
• Churchyard cross in Lanivet churchyard, 30m north of the church
• Platform cairn 450m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Wayside cross at Bodwannick Manor Farm
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• Ornamented cross shaft at Glynn
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Medieval wayside cross in St Mabyn churchyard
• Four bowl barrows north of Greymare Farm, forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Medieval wayside cross 320m south west of Higher Trevivian
• Lantern cross 60m north east of Lancarffe
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Helland Bridge
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Slight univallate hillfort in Dunmere Wood 235m WNW of Crabb's Pool
• Four Hole Cross, 200m north of Lord's Waste Farm
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Cairn 485m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Platform cairn 460m SW of Colquite Farm
• Churchyard cross in Lanivet churchyard, 5m west of the church
• Tawna Downs round barrows
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Animal pound called Crowpound
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Motte and bailey castle called Cardinham Castle
• Iron Age defended settlement called Penhargard Castle
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Two platform cairns centred 485m SW of Colquite Farm
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Treslea Cross, 750m ENE of Cardinham Church
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Unenclosed hut circle settlement, field boundaries, enclosure and cairn on Blacktor Downs
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Small multivallate hillfort with outworks known as Pencarrow Rounds
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Blacktor Downs irregular aggregate field system and clearance cairn
• Churchyard cross in Cardinham churchyard, 5m south of the church
• Trezance Holy Well and chapel enclosure
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Bowl barrow known as Council Barrow
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Medieval longhouse settlement (known locally as Lamlavery), and an associated field system
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Early Christian memorial stone and wayside cross in Cardinham churchyard, 10m east of the church
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Treslea Downs Cross 300m west of Mount
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Two early Christian memorial stones 195m north of Welltown
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Tredinnick Cross, 450m east of Great Tredinnick
• Medieval wayside cross head 75m east of Newpark
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Berrycombe Cross, on the north side of Berrycombe Road at its junction with Cardell Road
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Largin Castle
• Medieval chapel of St Thomas Becket 45m east of the church, Priory Road in Bodmin
• Six cairns on Buttern Hill
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Wayside cross 55m north east of Laninval House
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Carminow Cross, south east of Bodmin
• Two round cairns, three enclosed and two open stone hut circle settlements, a rectangular enclosure and a medieval longhouse to the south of Carburrow Tor
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Medieval wayside cross at Castle Hill, 740m north east of Bodmin parish church
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• The Prior's Cross at Washaway
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Stone hut circle 525m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Two Bronze Age settlements, associated field enclosures, small cairns, a cist and a propped stone on the south and western slopes of Leskernick Hill
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning Hill
• King Arthur's Hall
• Temple Old Bridge with adjacent ford and causeway
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• An early Christian memorial stone at Lancarffe
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Bowl barrow 250m north west of Newpark
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Pencarrow, 130m SSE of Pencarrow House
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross 120m north west of Callywith
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate