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.

Hiking Areas to visit near Highertown include Tehidy.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are some of Highertown best country parks to visit near Highertown.

The area around Highertown boasts some of the best towns including Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Kit Hill Country Park is one of Highertown's best, nearby hills to visit in Highertown.

Cremyll, and Botallack are great places to visit near Highertown if you like villages.

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

Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport are great places to visit near Highertown if you like airports.

Highertown History

There are some historic monuments around Highertown:

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