Upper Wilcove is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Upper Wilcove

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

Upper Wilcove is near some unmissable hiking areas like Tehidy,

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

Don't miss Callington, Polperro, and St Ives's towns if visiting the area around Upper Wilcove.

Upper Wilcove is near some unmissable hills like Kit Hill Country Park,

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

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is one of Upper Wilcove's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Upper Wilcove.

Upper Wilcove's best nearby airports can be found at Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Upper Wilcove History

There are some historic monuments around Upper Wilcove:

• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Breakwater fort
• Fort Bovisand
• Cawsand Fort
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Fort Stamford
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Knowle battery
• Agaton fort
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Tregantle Fort
• Ernesettle battery
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Woodland fort
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Buckland Abbey
• Bowden Battery
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Inswork Chapel
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Round on Berry Down
• Crownhill Fort
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Eastern King battery
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Scraesdon Fort
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton