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.

Don't miss Tehidy's hiking areas if visiting the area around Maker.

Maker's best nearby country parks can be found at 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.

The area around Maker's best hills can be found at Kit Hill Country Park.

There are a several good villages in the Maker area like Cremyll, and Botallack.

Historic Buildings to visit near Maker include Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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:

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