Rame Conservation Trust

Who we are

Rame Conservation Trust manages the nationally important heritage assets at Maker Heights in South East Cornwall. The site is located on the Rame Peninsula, just over the Tamar from Plymouth.

Maker Heights is designated as a place of outstanding heritage significance. This is a former military site which played an important role in the defence of Plymouth from the late 18th century.  The site contains five scheduled moments and four grade II listed buildings. The site also boasts environmental assets of local and national importance. It lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Maker Heights played an important social historical role in an initiative to provide children from deprived backgrounds respite from poverty. Nancy Astor, the first female to sit as an MP in the House of Commons, set up Maker Camp in 1923 as a school holiday camp for Plymouth’s deprived children. The camp continued to operate in this way, including through the post-second world war period, until the early 1980s.

In recent decades, Maker Heights has become home to a creative community of artists and musicians. A number of social and other enterprises operate from the site, including the Maker Canteen, which is run by ex-River Cottage chef, Nick Platt.