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.

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

The area around Maker features a number of interesting towns including Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

There are a number of hills near to Maker including Kit Hill Country Park.

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

There are a number of historic buildings near to Maker including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Maker History

There are some historic monuments around Maker:

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