Michaelstow is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Michaelstow

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

Places near Michaelstow 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 Michaelstow best country parks to visit near Michaelstow.

Michaelstow's best nearby towns can be found at Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

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

Villages to visit near Michaelstow include Cremyll, and Botallack.

Michaelstow is near some unmissable historic buildings like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park,

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

Michaelstow History

There are some historic monuments around Michaelstow:

• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• An early Christian memorial stone at Lancarffe
• Motte and bailey castle called Cardinham Castle
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Fenterleigh crossroads, 750m south-east of Bossiney
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• King Arthur's Hall
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Churchyard cross in Cardinham churchyard, 5m south of the church
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Job's Cross, medieval wayside cross 500m north east of Trewethern
• Trezance Holy Well and chapel enclosure
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Small multivallate hillfort called Tregeare Rounds
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Bowl barrow called Condolden Barrow
• Rock art at Rocky Valley, 150m north of Trevillett Mill
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Round called Castle Goff
• The Three Holes Cross 550m west of Sandylands Farm
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Slight univallate hillfort in Dunmere Wood 235m WNW of Crabb's Pool
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Small multivallate hillfort with outworks known as Pencarrow Rounds
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Chapel Amble Cross in St Kew churchyard, 30m north west of the church
• The Prior's Cross at Washaway
• Part of an early-Christian cemetery 65m north west of Tintagel church
• Bury Castle
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Cross 410m north east of Tregrylls
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Pencarrow, 130m SSE of Pencarrow House
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Bowl barrow known as Council Barrow
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Treslea Downs Cross 300m west of Mount
• Bowl barrow 490m SSW of Tregatherall Farm
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Killibury Castle later Prehistoric hillfort
• Lantern cross 60m north east of Lancarffe
• Iron Age defended settlement called Penhargard Castle
• Two early Christian memorial stones 195m north of Welltown
• Early Christian memorial stone and wayside cross in Cardinham churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Motte castle known as Bossiney Castle
• Medieval wayside cross in St Mabyn churchyard
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• Helland Bridge
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Round barrow cemetery including Tich Barrow 730m north east of Trehane Pool
• Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• Round cairn 180m north of Trevarthian
• Trequite Cross, at Trequite village
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Trevena Cross
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• Wayside cross 120m north west of Callywith
• Early medieval decorated and inscribed wayside cross shaft and base on Waterpit Down, 250m WSW of Hallwell Barton Bungalow
• Cross near Deviock Cottage
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Three bowl barrows, 60m and 250m south and 500m south west of Nettings Park
• Treslea Cross, 750m ENE of Cardinham Church
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Romano-British and early medieval settlement, medieval church, castle and associated features on Tintagel Island and adjoining mainland
• Holy Well 100m north east of St David's church
• Polrode Cross in St Kew churchyard, 3m east of the church
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Dovecote 35m south of the Vicarage, Tintagel
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls