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, towns, villages, airports, country parks, hills and historic buildings.

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

Towns to visit near Forder include Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Forder has some unmissable villages nearby like Cremyll, and Botallack.

Don't miss Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport's airports if visiting the area around Forder.

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

Hills to visit near Forder include Kit Hill Country Park.

The area close to Forder boasts some of the best historic buildings including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Forder History

There are some historic monuments around Forder:

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