Torpoint is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Torpoint postcode: PL11 2LH

Retail in Torpoint

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

Tehidy is one of Torpoint's best, nearby hiking areas to visit in Torpoint.

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 Torpoint.

The area around Torpoint features a number of interesting towns including Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Places near Torpoint feature a number of interesting hills including Kit Hill Country Park.

There are a number of villages near Torpoint including Cremyll, and Botallack.

Historic Buildings to visit near Torpoint include Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

The area around Torpoint boasts some of the best airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Torpoint History

There are some historic monuments around Torpoint:

• 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
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Crownhill Fort
• Scraesdon Fort
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Breakwater fort
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Eastern King battery
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Fort Stamford
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• Woodland fort
• Cawsand Fort
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Knowle battery
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Fort Bovisand
• Bowden Battery
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Tregantle Fort
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Ernesettle battery
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Agaton fort
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Round on Berry Down
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Inswork Chapel
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard