Highertown is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Highertown

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

The area around Highertown's best hiking areas can be found at Tehidy.

There are a several good country parks in the Highertown area like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are some of Highertown best towns to visit near Highertown.

Highertown is near some unmissable hills like Kit Hill Country Park,

Villages to visit near Highertown include Cremyll, and Botallack.

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is a great place to visit close to Highertown if you like historic buildings.

There are a number of airports near Highertown including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Highertown History

There are some historic monuments around Highertown:

• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• King Arthur's Hall
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round called Castle Goff
• Forrabury Cross, 40m SSW of Forrabury church
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Wayside cross 620m south west of Basil Farm
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Bowl barrow known as Council Barrow
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Platform cairn 460m SW of Colquite Farm
• Bowl barrow 250m north west of Newpark
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm
• Deserted medieval settlement 1125m WNW of Canaglaze
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Leskernick stone alignment
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Motte and bailey castle at Boscastle
• Cross 470m north of Lambrenny
• Wayside cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m south of the church
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Tregatheral Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Stone hut circle 525m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Bowl barrow 700m east of Tregray Farm
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Medieval wayside cross head 75m east of Newpark
• Trevalga Cross in Trevalga churchyard
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Leskernick south stone circle
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Dovecote 35m south of the Vicarage, Tintagel
• Bowl barrow 490m SSW of Tregatherall Farm
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Two Bronze Age settlements, associated field enclosures, small cairns, a cist and a propped stone on the south and western slopes of Leskernick Hill
• Barrow 90m E of Trelay Farm
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• Medieval long-house with adjacent enclosure 1.44km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Unenclosed hut circle settlement, field boundaries, enclosure and cairn on Blacktor Downs
• Temple Old Bridge with adjacent ford and causeway
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Motte castle known as Bossiney Castle
• Cairn 485m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Iron Age defended settlement 425m west of Trebray
• Medieval wayside cross at Fenterleigh crossroads, 750m south-east of Bossiney
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Two bowl barrows 625m south of Greystone Farm
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Iron Age defended settlement 170m north west of Cargurra
• Six cairns on Buttern Hill
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Three bowl barrows, 60m and 250m south and 500m south west of Nettings Park
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Rock art at Rocky Valley, 150m north of Trevillett Mill
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Holy Well 100m north east of St David's church
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Trevena Cross
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Medieval longhouse settlement (known locally as Lamlavery), and an associated field system
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• Bowl barrow called Condolden Barrow
• Early medieval decorated and inscribed wayside cross shaft and base on Waterpit Down, 250m WSW of Hallwell Barton Bungalow
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• Blacktor Downs irregular aggregate field system and clearance cairn
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• 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
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Four Hole Cross, 200m north of Lord's Waste Farm
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Two platform cairns centred 485m SW of Colquite Farm
• Platform cairn 450m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Platform cairn on Priddacombe Downs
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning Hill
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down
• Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Anderton Mill Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m north of the church
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Ring cairn and two kerbed cairns on Bray Down
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Wayside cross in Lesnewth churchyard
• Helland Bridge
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Leskernick north stone circle
• Medieval wayside cross 320m south west of Higher Trevivian
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round (or petal) cairn on the summit of Leskernick Hill
• Two bowl barrows 595m north west of Belah Park Farm
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• Round barrow cemetery including Tich Barrow 730m north east of Trehane Pool
• Cross 410m north east of Tregrylls
• Bowl barrow 660m north east of Tresoke
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage