St. Merryn is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in St. Merryn

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

Hiking Areas to visit near St. Merryn include Tehidy.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are great places to visit near St. Merryn if you like country parks.

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

The area around St. Merryn's best hills can be found at Kit Hill Country Park.

There are a several good villages in the St. Merryn area like Cremyll, and Botallack.

Places near St. Merryn feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

The area around St. Merryn boasts some of the best airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

St. Merryn History

There are some historic monuments around St. Merryn:

• Lanherne Cross, standing cross in the grounds of the convent, Lanherne
• Churchyard cross in St Michael's churchyard, Porthilly
• The Long Stone or Eddystone, standing stone 210m north east of Music Water
• Four round barrows 270m north west of Higher Trevibban Farm
• Prehistoric inhumation cemetery at Harlyn
• Three promontory forts south of Trethias Island
• Seven round barrows and a ring barrow on Bear's Downs and Denzell Downs, 850m north east of Higher Denzell
• Three round barrows on St Issey Beacon, Trelow Downs, 960m north east of Little Pennatillies
• Cross Putty, medieval wayside cross-base 70m south east of Bosworgey Cottage
• Promontory fort called The Rumps
• Three bowl barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Cataclews Point
• Two round barrows 440m and 510m north west of High Cove Farm
• Churchyard cross in St Columb Major churchyard, 12m east of the church
• Part of an early Christian Chapel enclosure at The Old Vicarage
• Cross base 30m south of St Merryn's Church
• Round barrow cemetery at Park Head
• Liveloe, later prehistoric cliff castle with hut circles on Griffin's Point, and prehistoric round barrow 600m south west of Bre-Pen Farm
• Eleven round barrows and a stone alignment centred 980m north west of Nine Maidens Stone Row
• Hut circle settlement and round called Trevisker Round at Trevisker School
• Wayside cross-slab and early Christian memorial stone in St Columb Major churchyard, 2m south of the church
• Round 340m north west of Tresawle Farm
• The Nine Maidens stone alignment, The Fiddler standing stone and two Bronze Age round barrows
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Prideaux Place 70m SSW of the house
• Later prehistoric to Romano-British multiple enclosure fort and prehistoric round barrow, 350m south east of Bogee Farm
• Promontory fort and two bowl barrows at Trevelgue Head
• Nine round barrows 850m north east of Pennatillie
• Redcliff Castle, later prehistoric cliff castle 550m south west of Bedruthan
• Churchyard cross shaft and base in St Petroc's churchyard, 30m south east of the church
• Churchyard cross in St Petroc's churchyard, 3m south of the church
• Two round barrows 150m south west and 180m south east of Prince Parc
• Two bowl barrows 190m east of Zacry's Islands
• Mawgan Porth early medieval settlement and associated burial ground, 250m west of Lanerick
• St Constantine's chapel and holy well
• Round 600m south east of Tregolds
• Four round barrows 400m south east of Little Trewinnick Farm
• Standing cross immediately west of St Mawgan Church