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.

The area close to Maker boasts some of the best hiking areas including 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.

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

There are a several good hills in the area around Maker like Kit Hill Country Park.

Don't miss Cremyll, and Botallack's villages if visiting the area around Maker.

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

Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport are some of Maker best airports to visit near Maker.

Maker History

There are some historic monuments around Maker:

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