Pillmere is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Pillmere

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Pillmere include Tehidy.

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

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are great places to visit near Pillmere if you like towns.

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

Don't miss Cremyll, and Botallack's villages if visiting the area around Pillmere.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Pillmere like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Pillmere has some unmissable airports nearby like Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Pillmere History

There are some historic monuments around Pillmere:

• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Morwellham Quay: transport infrastructure, part of the water control system and a manganese mill
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Cawsand Fort
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Woodland fort
• Knowle battery
• Tregantle Fort
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Eastern King battery
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Round at Berry Farm
• Buckland Abbey
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Medieval churchyard cross in Callington churchyard
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Inswork Chapel
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Scraesdon Fort
• Prince of Wales Mine at Harrowbarrow
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Camp NE of Berra Tor
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Round on Berry Down
• Ernesettle battery
• Breakwater fort
• Agaton fort