Maker is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Maker postcode: PL10 1HR

Retail in Maker

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

Places near Maker feature a number of interesting hiking areas including Tehidy.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are some of Maker best country parks to visit near Maker.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are some of Maker best towns to visit near Maker.

There are a several good hills in the area around Maker like Kit Hill Country Park.

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

There are a number of historic buildings near to Maker including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Airports to visit near Maker include Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Maker History

There are some historic monuments around Maker:

• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• Cawsand Fort
• Crownhill Fort
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Fort Stamford
• Woodland fort
• 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
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Knowle battery
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Ernesettle battery
• Round on Berry Down
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Agaton fort
• Eastern King battery
• Breakwater fort
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Bowden Battery
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Tregantle Fort
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Inswork Chapel
• Scraesdon Fort
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 100m west of Princes Cottages
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Fort Bovisand
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights