Maker is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Maker postcode: PL10 1HR

Retail in Maker

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

Maker is near some unmissable hiking areas like Tehidy,

Don't miss Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Maker.

Don't miss Callington, Polperro, and St Ives's towns if visiting the area around Maker.

Kit Hill Country Park is a great place to visit close to Maker if you like hills.

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

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

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

Maker History

There are some historic monuments around Maker:

• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Crownhill Fort
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 100m west of Princes Cottages
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Eastern King battery
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Cawsand Fort
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Tregantle Fort
• Inswork Chapel
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Scraesdon Fort
• Fort Bovisand
• Ernesettle battery
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Bowden Battery
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Round on Berry Down
• Knowle battery
• Woodland fort
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Fort Stamford
• Agaton fort
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Breakwater fort
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber