Nearest History & Heritage Cornwall
Our History and Heritage category brings all Coast Radar’s Cornwall listings related to looking for something to do or a place to visit together where they offer some form of historic or heritage based activity.
Finding the best things to see and do on a Cornwall day out with your family or friends is easy – simply explore the historic and heritage links below, hit the jump to my location button or use the search bar to plan your next Cornwall activity.
- St Breock Downs Monolith is a 16 ft (5 m) high and weighing some 16.75 tonnes prehistoric standing stone located near St Breock. St Breock Downs offers some wonderful views.
- Penhallam is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat built by the de Cardinham family in the 13th century. No building exists but you can see a grass-covered complete ground-plan of the moated manor house.
- Lanhydrock house is a magnificent late 19th Century Victorian country house with extensive servants’ quarters. The house sits within 180 hectares (445 acres) of gardens and wooded estate. Excellent place to investigate the upstairs vs. downstairs in Victorian England.
- The National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwal overlooks the marina. The Museum houses galleries, interactve displays, workshops as well as the expected 100’s of boats.
- Trerice House, an Elizabethan manor house built in 1570s. The house is well preserved with fine interiors whilst the garden includes orchards. Managed by the National Trust and the Barn restaurant offers morning coffee, freshly made lunches, a delicious selection of cakes.
- The Old Post Office in Tintagel is a 600-year-old traditional Cornish Longhouse with a cottage garden.
- Cotehele Mill is a working watermill and workshops with collections of local craftsman’s tools. The mill is located within the Cotehele Estate.
- Godolphin was considered in the 17th century to be the most fashionable house in Cornwall. There are many fascinating walks on the estate, which includes Godolphin Hill and more than 400 recorded archaeological features.
- Prideaux Place is an Elizabethan mansion that has been the home to the Prideaux family. As each generation lived in the house they added something extra so it is a mx of styles. The 40 acres of grounds has been restored to its former glory.
- King Charles’s Castle is a ruined artillery fort on Tresco built between 1548 and 1551 to protect the Isles of Scilly from French attack. A semi-hexagonal structure to provide a wide field of fire and two-storey to give at least two tiers of guns. The domestic quarters for the garrison were at the rear.
- An unfinished artillery fort, built above St Mary’s Pool harbour in 1552-53
- Chysauster Ancient Village, 2,000 year old Iron Age settlement. The village of stone-walled homesteads known as ‘courtyard houses’, found only on the Land’s End peninsula and the Isles of Scilly. The houses line a ‘village street’, and each had an open central courtyard surrounded by a number of thatched rooms. There are also the remains of an enigmatic ‘fogou’ underground passage.
