Watergate is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Watergate

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

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

There are a several good country parks in the Watergate area like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Don't miss Callington, Polperro, and St Ives's towns if visiting the area around Watergate.

Watergate is near some unmissable hills like Kit Hill Country Park,

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

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is one of Watergate's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Watergate.

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

Watergate History

There are some historic monuments around Watergate:

• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• Motte castle known as Bossiney Castle
• Cross 470m north of Lambrenny
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Bowl barrow 660m north east of Tresoke
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Medieval wayside cross 320m south west of Higher Trevivian
• Forrabury Cross, 40m SSW of Forrabury church
• Three bowl barrows, 60m and 250m south and 500m south west of Nettings Park
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Blacktor Downs irregular aggregate field system and clearance cairn
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Trevena Cross
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Cross 410m north east of Tregrylls
• Tregatheral Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Round barrow cemetery including Tich Barrow 730m north east of Trehane Pool
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Holy Well 100m north east of St David's church
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Two bowl barrows 625m south of Greystone Farm
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Four Hole Cross, 200m north of Lord's Waste Farm
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Leskernick stone alignment
• Iron Age defended settlement 425m west of Trebray
• Six cairns on Buttern Hill
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Trevalga Cross in Trevalga churchyard
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Two round cairns, three enclosed and two open stone hut circle settlements, a rectangular enclosure and a medieval longhouse to the south of Carburrow Tor
• Anderton Mill Cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m north of the church
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Round barrow cemetery on Wilsey Down
• Two platform cairns centred 485m SW of Colquite Farm
• Platform cairn 450m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Medieval wayside cross head 75m east of Newpark
• Ring cairn and two kerbed cairns on Bray Down
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Bowl barrow 250m north west of Newpark
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross in St Juliot's churchyard, 10m south of the church
• Two bowl barrows 595m north west of Belah Park Farm
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Wayside cross 620m south west of Basil Farm
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Unenclosed hut circle settlement, field boundaries, enclosure and cairn on Blacktor Downs
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Cairn 485m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Round (or petal) cairn on the summit of Leskernick Hill
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Leskernick south stone circle
• Wayside cross in Lesnewth churchyard
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Bowl barrow 700m east of Tregray Farm
• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• Platform cairn 460m SW of Colquite Farm
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• Round called Castle Goff
• An early Christian memorial stone 380m south east of Worthyvale Manor
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Temple Old Bridge with adjacent ford and causeway
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Barrow 90m E of Trelay Farm
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning Hill
• Bowl barrow 490m SSW of Tregatherall Farm
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• Three bowl barrows 130m east of Starapark Farm
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Two Bronze Age settlements, associated field enclosures, small cairns, a cist and a propped stone on the south and western slopes of Leskernick Hill
• Medieval wayside cross at Fenterleigh crossroads, 750m south-east of Bossiney
• Platform cairn on Priddacombe Downs
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Bowl barrow called Condolden Barrow
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Medieval longhouse settlement (known locally as Lamlavery), and an associated field system
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Motte and bailey castle at Boscastle
• Stone hut circle 525m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Tresplatt Farm
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Helland Bridge
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Medieval long-house with adjacent enclosure 1.44km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• King Arthur's Hall
• Deserted medieval settlement 1125m WNW of Canaglaze
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Dovecote 35m south of the Vicarage, Tintagel
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Rock art at Rocky Valley, 150m north of Trevillett Mill
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• Early medieval decorated and inscribed wayside cross shaft and base on Waterpit Down, 250m WSW of Hallwell Barton Bungalow
• Iron Age defended settlement 170m north west of Cargurra
• Leskernick north stone circle
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate