Wearde Quay is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Wearde Quay

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

There are a several good hiking areas in the area around Wearde Quay like 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 Wearde Quay.

The area around Wearde Quay features a number of interesting towns including Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

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

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

There are a number of historic buildings near to Wearde Quay including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport are some of Wearde Quay best airports to visit near Wearde Quay.

Wearde Quay History

There are some historic monuments around Wearde Quay:

• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Scraesdon Fort
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Bowden Battery
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Round at Berry Farm
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Cawsand Fort
• Fort Bovisand
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Crownhill Fort
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Tregantle Fort
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Breakwater fort
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Fort Stamford
• Agaton fort
• Buckland Abbey
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Ernesettle battery
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Round on Berry Down
• Eastern King battery
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Knowle battery
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Woodland fort
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Inswork Chapel
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block