Watergate is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Watergate

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

Tehidy is one of Watergate's best, nearby hiking areas to visit in Watergate.

Watergate has some unmissable country parks nearby like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

There are a number of hills near to Watergate including Kit Hill Country Park.

Watergate has some unmissable villages nearby like Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

The area around Watergate features a number of interesting airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Watergate History

There are some historic monuments around Watergate:

• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Holy Well 100m north east of St David's church
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm
• Leskernick south stone circle
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Dovecote 35m south of the Vicarage, Tintagel
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Round called Castle Goff
• Leskernick north stone circle
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Platform cairn 450m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Stone hut circle 525m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Unenclosed hut circle settlement, field boundaries, enclosure and cairn on Blacktor Downs
• Bowl barrow 700m east of Tregray Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Fenterleigh crossroads, 750m south-east of Bossiney
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• Cairn 485m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Motte castle known as Bossiney Castle
• Trevena Cross
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Rock art at Rocky Valley, 150m north of Trevillett Mill
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning Hill
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Early medieval decorated and inscribed wayside cross shaft and base on Waterpit Down, 250m WSW of Hallwell Barton Bungalow
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Medieval long-house with adjacent enclosure 1.44km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Cross 470m north of Lambrenny
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Temple Old Bridge with adjacent ford and causeway
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Wayside cross 620m south west of Basil Farm
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Wayside cross in Lesnewth churchyard
• Helland Bridge
• Two bowl barrows 625m south of Greystone Farm
• Barrow 90m E of Trelay Farm
• Two round cairns, three enclosed and two open stone hut circle settlements, a rectangular enclosure and a medieval longhouse to the south of Carburrow Tor
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Leskernick stone alignment
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Two platform cairns centred 485m SW of Colquite Farm
• Three bowl barrows, 60m and 250m south and 500m south west of Nettings Park
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Tregatheral Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Four Hole Cross, 200m north of Lord's Waste Farm
• Iron Age defended settlement 425m west of Trebray
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Bowl barrow 250m north west of Newpark
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Two Bronze Age settlements, associated field enclosures, small cairns, a cist and a propped stone on the south and western slopes of Leskernick Hill
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• Forrabury Cross, 40m SSW of Forrabury church
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• Platform cairn on Priddacombe Downs
• Bowl barrow 490m SSW of Tregatherall Farm
• Six cairns on Buttern Hill
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Platform cairn 460m SW of Colquite Farm
• Round barrow cemetery including Tich Barrow 730m north east of Trehane Pool
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Bowl barrow 660m north east of Tresoke
• Medieval wayside cross head 75m east of Newpark
• Blacktor Downs irregular aggregate field system and clearance cairn
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Motte and bailey castle at Boscastle
• Cross 410m north east of Tregrylls
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Trevalga Cross in Trevalga churchyard
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Iron Age defended settlement 170m north west of Cargurra
• Wayside cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m south of the church
• Medieval longhouse settlement (known locally as Lamlavery), and an associated field system
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Round (or petal) cairn on the summit of Leskernick Hill
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Ring cairn and two kerbed cairns on Bray Down
• Anderton Mill Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m north of the church
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Medieval wayside cross 320m south west of Higher Trevivian
• Bowl barrow called Condolden Barrow
• Deserted medieval settlement 1125m WNW of Canaglaze
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Two bowl barrows 595m north west of Belah Park Farm
• King Arthur's Hall