Find the nearest History & Heritage in 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.
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. Read more…
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. Read more…
Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village. The remains of an Iron Age village in a scenic location. With a Bronze Age burial mound, entrance passage and inner chamber. Read more…
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 Read more…
The Geevor Tin Mine is the largest preserved mining site in the UK, and part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site! You can go underground into a real 18th-century tin mine, visit the interactive Hard Rock Museum that takes you through the fascinating story of Cornish Tin and Copper mining, and explore the mining buildings with their intact mining Read more…
Mount Edgcumbe House is the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, first built in the 1500s. Set in Grade I Cornish Gardens within 865 acres Country Park. Read more…
Saint Mawes Castle is among the best-preserved of Henry VIII’s coastal artillery fortresses. The castle was one of the chain of forts built between 1539 and 1545 to counter an invasion threat from Catholic France and Spain, it guarded the important anchorage of Carrick Roads, sharing the task with Pendennis Castle on the other side of the Fal estuary. Read more…
Cotehele is a Tudor house with superb collections of textiles, armour and furniture. The house is set around three courtyards and the grounds have a valey garden and terraced gardens with many paths you can explore alongside the River Tamar. The garden includes a domed medieval dovecote and passes down to a quay. Read more…
Cromwell’s Castle guards the anchorage between Bryher and Tresco. The castle has a round tower and is one of the few surviving Cromwellian fortifications in Britain, built after the conquest of the Royalist Scillies in 1651. Read more…
Launceston a medieval walled city was Cornwall’s capital for centuries. Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape with its unusual keep consisting of a 13th-century round tower built by Richard, Earl of Cornwall. The castle has views of both Dartmoor and Bodmin. Read more…
The Old Post Office in Tintagel is a 600-year-old traditional Cornish Longhouse with a cottage garden. Read more…
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