Lower Wilcove is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Lower Wilcove postcode: PL11 2PL

Retail in Lower Wilcove

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Lower Wilcove include Tehidy.

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

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

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

Cremyll, and Botallack are some of Lower Wilcove best villages to visit near Lower Wilcove.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Lower Wilcove like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Airports to visit near Lower Wilcove include Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Lower Wilcove History

There are some historic monuments around Lower Wilcove:

• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Woodland fort
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Buckland Abbey
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Breakwater fort
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Inswork Chapel
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Eastern King battery
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Scraesdon Fort
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Tregantle Fort
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Bowden Battery
• Fort Bovisand
• Agaton fort
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Knowle battery
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Crownhill Fort
• Round on Berry Down
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Cawsand Fort
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Fort Stamford
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Ernesettle battery
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights