Forder is a village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Forder

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

Tehidy is a great place to visit close to Forder if you like hiking areas.

Forder's best nearby country parks can be found at 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 Forder if you like towns.

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

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

The area around Forder's best historic buildings can be found at Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Airports to visit near Forder include Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Forder History

There are some historic monuments around Forder:

• Eastern King battery
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Round on Berry Down
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Knowle battery
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Round at Berry Farm
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Scraesdon Fort
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Inswork Chapel
• Slight univallate hillfort called Cadson Bury
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Breakwater fort
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Agaton fort
• Woodland fort
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Tregantle Fort
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Cawsand Fort
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Ernesettle battery
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe