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,

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

Towns to visit near Maker include Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Hills to visit near Maker include Kit Hill Country Park.

Maker's best nearby villages can be found at Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

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

Maker History

There are some historic monuments around Maker:

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