Penquite is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Penquite

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

The area close to Penquite boasts some of the best hiking areas including Tehidy.

Country Parks to visit near Penquite include Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

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

Penquite's best nearby villages can be found at Cremyll, and Botallack.

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is a great place to visit close to Penquite if you like historic buildings.

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

Penquite History

There are some historic monuments around Penquite:

• Medieval wayside cross in St Ivo's churchyard, 0.3m south of the church
• Prince of Wales Mine at Harrowbarrow
• The South Hill inscribed stone, an early Christian memorial stone in South Hill churchyard, 50m west of St Sampson's Church
• Medieval wayside cross in St Ivo's churchyard, 10m ESE of the church
• Holmbush Mine: Windsor Lane rotative engine house with adjacent boiler house, loadings and platform
• Tregantle Fort
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Holmbush Mine: Hitchen's Shaft complex
• Iron Age defended settlement at Padderbury Top
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Round on Berry Down
• Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard
• Wayside cross 50m north east of Carracawn Cross
• Bowl barrow 60m north-west of Tamar View Farm
• Canal, lock, island and salmon keeping pond known collectively as the Tamar Canal
• Enclosure on Kit Hill
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Gunnislake Clitters copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Slight univallate hillfort called Cadson Bury
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Cross at Triffle Farm
• Round barrows on Hingston Down
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Scraesdon Fort
• Inswork Chapel
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Two bowl barrows 185m east of Tamar View Farm
• Round at Berry Farm
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Round with annexe 530m north east of Lower Padreda
• Medieval churchyard cross in Quethiock churchyard