Landrake is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Landrake postcode: PL12 5DN

Retail in Landrake

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

The area around Landrake's best hiking areas can be found at Tehidy.

There are a number of country parks near Landrake including Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Don't miss Kit Hill Country Park's hills if visiting the area around Landrake.

The area around Landrake features a number of interesting villages including Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

There are a several good airports in the Landrake area like Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Landrake History

There are some historic monuments around Landrake:

• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Slight univallate hillfort called Cadson Bury
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Wayside cross 50m north east of Carracawn Cross
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Round at Berry Farm
• Round with annexe 530m north east of Lower Padreda
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Prince of Wales Mine at Harrowbarrow
• Round barrows on Hingston Down
• Round on Berry Down
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Iron Age defended settlement at Padderbury Top
• Canal, lock, island and salmon keeping pond known collectively as the Tamar Canal
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Bowl barrow 60m north-west of Tamar View Farm
• Medieval wayside cross in St Ivo's churchyard, 10m ESE of the church
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Medieval wayside cross in St Ivo's churchyard, 0.3m south of the church
• Inswork Chapel
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Cawsand Fort
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Tregantle Fort
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Cross at Triffle Farm
• Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Scraesdon Fort
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Enclosure on Kit Hill
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Two bowl barrows 185m east of Tamar View Farm
• Morwellham Quay: transport infrastructure, part of the water control system and a manganese mill
• Medieval churchyard cross in Quethiock churchyard