Kingsand is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Kingsand postcode: PL10 1NP

Retail in Kingsand

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

Hiking Areas to visit near Kingsand include Tehidy.

The area around Kingsand features a number of interesting country parks including 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 Kingsand if you like towns.

Hills to visit near Kingsand include Kit Hill Country Park.

Kingsand's best nearby villages can be found at Cremyll, and Botallack.

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is one of Kingsand's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Kingsand.

Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport are some of Kingsand best airports to visit near Kingsand.

Kingsand History

There are some historic monuments around Kingsand:

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