Saltash is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Saltash

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

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

Don't miss Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Saltash.

Saltash's best nearby towns can be found at Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Hills to visit near Saltash include Kit Hill Country Park.

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

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

Saltash's best nearby airports can be found at Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Saltash History

There are some historic monuments around Saltash:

• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Ernesettle battery
• Cawsand Fort
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Round on Berry Down
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Round at Berry Farm
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Bowden Battery
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Knowle battery
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Woodland fort
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Breakwater fort
• Eastern King battery
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Crownhill Fort
• Buckland Abbey
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Camp NE of Berra Tor
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Scraesdon Fort
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Agaton fort
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Tregantle Fort
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Fort Bovisand
• Inswork Chapel
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Fort Stamford
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm