Rame is in the extreme South-East of Cornwall, on a peninsula to the West of Plymouth Sound. It is situated in the Deanery of East, and in the Southern division of the Hundred of East. It is bounded on the North by the parishes of St Johns and Maker, and on the East, South and West by the ocean. Rame was united with Maker parish in 1943 to form Maker-with-Rame parish and is now part of the Caradon District Council.