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.

Hiking Areas to visit near Upper Wilcove include 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.

Towns to visit near Upper Wilcove include Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

The area close to Upper Wilcove boasts some of the best hills including Kit Hill Country Park.

There are a number of villages near Upper Wilcove including Cremyll, and Botallack.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Upper Wilcove like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Upper Wilcove History

There are some historic monuments around Upper Wilcove:

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