Pillmere is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Pillmere

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Pillmere include Tehidy.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are some of Pillmere best country parks to visit near Pillmere.

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

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

Cremyll, and Botallack are great places to visit near Pillmere if you like villages.

Pillmere is near some unmissable historic buildings like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park,

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

Pillmere History

There are some historic monuments around Pillmere:

• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Tregantle Fort
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Knowle battery
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Eastern King battery
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Breakwater fort
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Buckland Abbey
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Woodland fort
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Ernesettle battery
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Scraesdon Fort
• Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Prince of Wales Mine at Harrowbarrow
• Morwellham Quay: transport infrastructure, part of the water control system and a manganese mill
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Cawsand Fort
• Round on Berry Down
• Agaton fort
• Camp NE of Berra Tor
• Inswork Chapel
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Round at Berry Farm
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court