Rame is a village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Rame

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

There are a number of hiking areas near to Rame including Tehidy.

Don't miss Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Rame.

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

Kit Hill Country Park is a great place to visit close to Rame if you like hills.

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

The area around Rame's best historic buildings can be found at Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

The area around Rame features a number of interesting airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Rame History

There are some historic monuments around Rame:

• Knowle battery
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Breakwater fort
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Inswork Chapel
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Agaton fort
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Fort Bovisand
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Round on Berry Down
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Fort Stamford
• Woodland fort
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Scraesdon Fort
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Ernesettle battery
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Cawsand Fort
• Bowden Battery
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Crownhill Fort
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Tregantle Fort
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Eastern King battery
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights