Cawsand is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Cawsand postcode: PL10 1PL

Retail in Cawsand

There are great places to visit near Cawsand including some great hiking areas, country parks, towns, hills, villages, historic buildings and airports.

The area around Cawsand's best hiking areas can be found at Tehidy.

There are a several good country parks in the Cawsand area like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are great places to visit near Cawsand if you like towns.

Kit Hill Country Park is a great place to visit close to Cawsand if you like hills.

There are a several good villages in the Cawsand area like Cremyll, and Botallack.

Cawsand is near some unmissable historic buildings like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park,

There are a number of airports near Cawsand including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Cawsand History

There are some historic monuments around Cawsand:

• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Tregantle Fort
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Agaton fort
• Fort Stamford
• Cawsand Fort
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Scraesdon Fort
• Inswork Chapel
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Knowle battery
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Crownhill Fort
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Ernesettle battery
• Breakwater fort
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Woodland fort
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Bowden Battery
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Fort Bovisand
• Eastern King battery
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Round on Berry Down
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole