Upper Wilcove is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Upper Wilcove

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

Places near Upper Wilcove 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 Upper Wilcove best country parks to visit near Upper Wilcove.

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

Hills to visit near Upper Wilcove include Kit Hill Country Park.

The area around Upper Wilcove features a number of interesting villages including Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

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

Upper Wilcove History

There are some historic monuments around Upper Wilcove:

• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Woodland fort
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Fort Bovisand
• Breakwater fort
• Eastern King battery
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Cawsand Fort
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Inswork Chapel
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Scraesdon Fort
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Crownhill Fort
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Agaton fort
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Ernesettle battery
• Tregantle Fort
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Buckland Abbey
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Knowle battery
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Fort Stamford
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Bowden Battery
• Round on Berry Down
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Western Kings artillery tower