Michaelstow is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Michaelstow

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Michaelstow include Tehidy.

There are a several good country parks in the Michaelstow area like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Michaelstow has some unmissable towns nearby like Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Michaelstow is near some unmissable hills like Kit Hill Country Park,

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

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

There are a number of airports near Michaelstow including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Michaelstow History

There are some historic monuments around Michaelstow:

• Trequite Cross, at Trequite village
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• The Prior's Cross at Washaway
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Helland Bridge
• Three bowl barrows, 60m and 250m south and 500m south west of Nettings Park
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Motte castle known as Bossiney Castle
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Round cairn 180m north of Trevarthian
• Bowl barrow 490m SSW of Tregatherall Farm
• Killibury Castle later Prehistoric hillfort
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm
• Round called Castle Goff
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Holy Well 100m north east of St David's church
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Medieval wayside cross at Fenterleigh crossroads, 750m south-east of Bossiney
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• An early Christian memorial stone at Lancarffe
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Small multivallate hillfort with outworks known as Pencarrow Rounds
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Pencarrow, 130m SSE of Pencarrow House
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Dovecote 35m south of the Vicarage, Tintagel
• The Three Holes Cross 550m west of Sandylands Farm
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Cross near Deviock Cottage
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• Cross 410m north east of Tregrylls
• Wayside cross 120m north west of Callywith
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Treslea Cross, 750m ENE of Cardinham Church
• Job's Cross, medieval wayside cross 500m north east of Trewethern
• Polrode Cross in St Kew churchyard, 3m east of the church
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Iron Age defended settlement called Penhargard Castle
• Trezance Holy Well and chapel enclosure
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Early Christian memorial stone and wayside cross in Cardinham churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Motte and bailey castle called Cardinham Castle
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• King Arthur's Hall
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Trevena Cross
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Medieval wayside cross in St Mabyn churchyard
• Small multivallate hillfort called Tregeare Rounds
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Bowl barrow known as Council Barrow
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Treslea Downs Cross 300m west of Mount
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Bury Castle
• Early medieval decorated and inscribed wayside cross shaft and base on Waterpit Down, 250m WSW of Hallwell Barton Bungalow
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round barrow cemetery including Tich Barrow 730m north east of Trehane Pool
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Two early Christian memorial stones 195m north of Welltown
• Chapel Amble Cross in St Kew churchyard, 30m north west of the church
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Churchyard cross in Cardinham churchyard, 5m south of the church
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Romano-British and early medieval settlement, medieval church, castle and associated features on Tintagel Island and adjoining mainland
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Bowl barrow called Condolden Barrow
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Lantern cross 60m north east of Lancarffe
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Slight univallate hillfort in Dunmere Wood 235m WNW of Crabb's Pool
• Rock art at Rocky Valley, 150m north of Trevillett Mill
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Part of an early-Christian cemetery 65m north west of Tintagel church
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church