Highertown is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Highertown

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

Don't miss Tehidy's hiking areas if visiting the area around Highertown.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are great places to visit near Highertown if you like country parks.

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

Hills to visit near Highertown include Kit Hill Country Park.

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

Don't miss Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park's historic buildings if visiting the area around Highertown.

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

Highertown History

There are some historic monuments around Highertown:

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