English Heritage sites near Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

Porth Hellick Down Burial Chamber

PORTH HELLICK DOWN BURIAL CHAMBER

1000 miles from Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

A large and imposing Scillonian Bronze Age entrance grave, with kerb, inner passage and burial chamber all clearly visible.

Halliggye Fogou

HALLIGGYE FOGOU

1000 miles from Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

Roofed and walled in stone, this complex of passages is the largest and best-preserved of several mysterious underground tunnels associated with Cornish Iron Age settlements.

Innisidgen Lower and Upper Burial Chambers

INNISIDGEN LOWER AND UPPER BURIAL CHAMBERS

1000 miles from Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

Two Bronze Age communal burial cairns of Scillonian type, with fine views. The upper cairn is the best preserved on the islands.

Harry's Walls

HARRY'S WALLS

1000 miles from Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

An unfinished artillery fort, built above St Mary's Pool harbour in 1552-53.

Garrison Walls

GARRISON WALLS

1000 miles from Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

You can enjoy a two-hour walk alongside the ramparts of these defensive walls and earthworks, dating from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Cromwell's Castle

CROMWELL'S CASTLE

1000 miles from Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

The castle stands guarding the lovely anchorage between Bryher and Tresco and is one of the few surviving Cromwellian fortifications in Britain.


Churches in Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

St Peter's Plaitford

Church Lane Plaitford

Although we do not have regular Sunday Services, St Peter's is very much open to serve the parish of Plaitford. Christenings, weddings and funerals can be arranged with David, the Team Vicar, and the churchyard is open for burials and for the interment of cremated remains


Pubs in Melchet Park and Plaitford Parish

Shoe Inn

Salisbury Road, Plaitford, SO51 6EE
(01794) 323399
theshoe-inn.co.uk/

The Shoe Inn is the last pub in Hampshire, right next to the busy Southampton to Salisbury road, just a few yards from the county boundary. The main car park is on the opposite side of the road to the pub, please take extreme care crossing....