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Highertown Cornwall Map

(Other Settlement near Tregoodwell)

Traditional county: Cornwall · Region: South West

Explore Highertown, Cornwall with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Highertown map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Highertown, Cornwall

How to Use This Highertown, Cornwall Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Highertown, Cornwall, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of Cornwall or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Highertown and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Highertown.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceHighertown
Traditional CountyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude50.599904
Longitude-4.657909
Place TypeOther Settlement

About Highertown

Highertown commands a quiet prominence upon the rising ground of north Cornwall, where the air possesses a crisp, sharpened clarity common to these exposed elevations. It lies 1.8 miles south-south-east of Camelford (from Camelford: bearing 150°T, OS grid SX 120 811), and is situated south-south-east of Tregoodwell village. The landscape surrounding Highertown retains the deep, weathered echoes of antiquity, evidenced by the stone hut circle settlement at Watergate, which lies a mere stone’s throw to the west-north-west. These ancient remnants sit amidst a network of fields where the light often shifts with a sudden, restless intensity, casting long shadows across the granite-strewn pastures. To the south, the profile of Dinnever Hill breaks the horizon, anchoring the vista with its stoic, rounded silhouette. Highertown itself remains defined by this proximity to the wilder, unyielding edges of the moor, where the earth feels thin and the wind carries the scent of damp gorse. Residents here observe a rhythm dictated by the seasons rather than the clock, as the elevation ensures that the first frosts of autumn settle early upon the lanes. Even in the height of summer, the atmosphere maintains a certain reserve, reflecting a geography that has always prioritised survival and endurance over mere ornament.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Stone Hut Circle Settlement And Part Of A Coaxial Field System At Watergate (Scheduled Monument) — 0.2 mi, 297° WNW · 6 ha
  • Two Stone Hut Circles 130M South East Of Highsteps (Scheduled Monument) — 0.4 mi, 218° SW
  • Three Platform Cairns 320M South-East Of Moorgate (Scheduled Monument) — 0.5 mi, 357° N
  • Dinnever Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.2 mi, 170° S
  • Louden Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.3 mi, 115° ESE
  • River Camel (River) — 1.3 mi, 264° W
  • Enfield Park (Park) — 1.9 mi, 332° NNW
  • De Lank River (River) — 2.1 mi, 103° ESE
  • Crowdy Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.2 mi, 046° NE
  • Slades (Historic Ruins) — 2.2 mi, 103° ESE
  • Bodmin Moor, North Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 2.3 mi, 125° SE · 49k acres
  • Helsbury Park Woods (Forest / Woodland) — 2.3 mi, 230° SW
  • Roughtor Marsh (Wetland) — 2.3 mi, 080° E
  • Crowdy Marsh (Wetland) — 2.5 mi, 056° NE
  • St Syth’s Chapel (Historic Ruins) — 2.5 mi, 244° WSW
  • Davidstow Woods (Forest / Woodland) — 2.6 mi, 037° NE
  • Fowey Well (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.8 mi, 103° ESE
  • Museum of Cycling (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 335° NNW
  • Slate Henge (Viewpoint) — 3.1 mi, 298° WNW
  • Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 3.2 mi, 297° WNW
  • Cornwall at War Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 019° NNE
  • RAF Davidstow Moor Memorial Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 019° NNE
  • Davidstow Creamery Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 018° NNE
  • Cheesewring (Attraction) — 3.6 mi, 172° S
  • De Lank Quarries Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.8 mi, 195° SSW · 22 ha
  • Trehane Pool (Lake / Reservoir) — 4.3 mi, 019° NNE
  • Lamellen (Historic Park or Garden) — 4.7 mi, 237° WSW · 9 ha
  • Jamaica Inn's Daphne du Maurier & Smuggling Museum (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 123° ESE
  • Temple Trout Fishery (Attraction) — 5.1 mi, 167° SSE
  • Tregardock Beach (Beach) — 5.2 mi, 287° WNW

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About This Highertown Map Page

Explore Highertown, Cornwall, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.599904, -4.657909. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtSeptember 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.