Watch Croft, Pendeen

Name: Watch Croft
Address: Pendeen, United Kingdom

#6 among attractions in Pendeen

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Watch Croft is a prominent hill, 252 metres high overlooking the north coast of the Cornwall, UK. Its prominence of 225 metres qualifies it as a Marilyn, one of only five in Cornwall. The others are Brown Willy, Kit Hill, Hensbarrow Beacon and Carnmenellis. It is the highest point in West Penwith. ()

Elevation: 827 ftProminence: 738 ftCoordinates: 50°9'55"N, 5°36'48"W

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Pendeen United Kingdom

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Watch Croft – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mên-an-Tol, Lanyon Quoit, Boskednan stone circle, Ding Dong mines.

0.6 miSE
Iconic Bronze Age stone monument
Mên-an-Tol, Madron and Sancreed
16 min walk • The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, UK. It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
1.4 miSE
Prehistoric site, Ruins
Lanyon Quoit, Madron and Sancreed
36 min walk • Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. It collapsed in a storm in 1815 and was re-erected nine years later, and as a result the dolmen is now very different from its original appearance.
0.9 miE
Prehistoric site
Boskednan stone circle
24 min walk • Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles northwest of the town of Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
1.2 miSE
Archaeological site
Ding Dong mines, Madron and Sancreed
30 min walk • The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area situated in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall, England. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road. They look out over Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount to the south west.
1.5 miSW
Forts and castles
Chûn Castle, Pendeen
38 min walk • Chûn Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The fort was built about 2,500 years ago, and fell into disuse until the early centuries AD when it was possibly re-occupied to protect the nearby tin mines.
0.5 miSE
Memorial
Mên Scryfa, Pendeen
12 min walk • Mên Scryfa is an inscribed standing stone in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
1.1 miSE
Prehistoric site
Bosiliack Barrow, Pendeen
29 min walk • Bosiliack Barrow is a barrow on the Penwith Moors between Madron and Morvah near the hamlet of Bosiliack in Cornwall, UK. The barrow is Neolithic and was excavated in 1984, causing little disturbance to the ancient site.
1.1 miW
Church
St Bridget's Church, Pendeen
30 min walk • St Bridget's Church, Morvah is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro located in Morvah, Cornwall, UK. It was licensed for divine service by the Bishop of Exeter on 22 September 1400.
1.6 miSW
Memorial
Chûn Quoit, Pendeen
41 min walk • Chûn Quoit is one of the best preserved of all Neolithic quoits in western Cornwall, United Kingdom. Chûn Quoit is located in open moorland near Pendeen and Morvah. Standing on a ridge, near the much later constructed Chûn Castle hill fort, it overlooks heather moorland and the open sea.