Markwell is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Markwell

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

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

Markwell's best nearby country parks can be found at Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are great places to visit near Markwell if you like towns.

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

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

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

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

Markwell History

There are some historic monuments around Markwell:

• Round with annexe 530m north east of Lower Padreda
• Medieval wayside cross in St Ivo's churchyard, 0.3m south of the church
• Cross at Triffle Farm
• Wayside cross 50m north east of Carracawn Cross
• Round at Berry Farm
• Medieval wayside cross in St Ivo's churchyard, 10m ESE of the church
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Cawsand Fort
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Round on Berry Down
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Iron Age defended settlement at Padderbury Top
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Medieval churchyard cross in Quethiock churchyard
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Tregantle Fort
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Scraesdon Fort
• Slight univallate hillfort called Cadson Bury
• Inswork Chapel