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.

Tehidy is a great place to visit close to Wearde Quay if you like hiking areas.

Wearde Quay's best nearby country parks can be found at Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

There are a number of towns near Wearde Quay including Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Hills to visit near Wearde Quay include Kit Hill Country Park.

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

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is a great place to visit close to Wearde Quay if you like historic buildings.

Wearde Quay's best nearby airports can be found at Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Wearde Quay History

There are some historic monuments around Wearde Quay:

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