Crownhill is a Village in the county of Devon.

Crownhill postcode: PL6 5AP

Retail in Crownhill

There are great places to visit near Crownhill including some great cities, historic buildings, villages, canals, rivers and streams, beaches, geological features, sssis, hiking areas, nature reserves, towns, parks, airports, castles and ruins.

Crownhill is near some unmissable cities like Exeter,

Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter are some of Crownhill best historic buildings to visit near Crownhill.

There are a number of villages near Crownhill including Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove.

There are a number of canals near Crownhill including Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.

Crownhill is near some unmissable rivers and streams like East Lyn River,

Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove are great places to visit near Crownhill if you like beaches.

Valley of Rocks is one of Crownhill's best, nearby geological features to visit in Crownhill.

SSSIs to visit near Crownhill include Dartmoor.

Don't miss Dartmoor's hiking areas if visiting the area around Crownhill.

Dartmoor is one of Crownhill's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Crownhill.

There are a number of towns near Crownhill including Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton.

There are a number of parks near to Crownhill including Bicton Park.

Exeter Airport is one of Crownhill's best, nearby airports to visit in Crownhill.

Don't miss Berry Pomeroy Castle's castles if visiting the area around Crownhill.

There are a number of ruins near to Crownhill including Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Crownhill History

There are some historic monuments around Crownhill:

• Settlement on Wigford Down
• Round barrow NW of Saddlesborough
• Prehistoric enclosures on Dewerstone Hill, 500m south east of Dewerstone Cottage
• Bowden Battery
• Knowle battery
• Greenwell Girt socket stone 600m SSW of Lovaton hamlet
• Four round barrows on Wigford Down
• Woodland fort
• Stone row NW of Saddlesborough
• Buckland Abbey
• Hut circles W of Wigford Down China Clay Works
• Barrow near Shaugh Cross
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Ernesettle battery
• Post-medieval deer park, medieval fishpond, 18th century triumphal arch and a 19th century lead mine, ore works and smelt mill at Boringdon Park
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Pound and hut circles N of Hawk's Tor
• Two hut circles S of Catstor Down
• Beatland Corner socket stone: a wayside cross 900m south east of Shaugh Prior church
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Eastern King battery
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Agaton fort
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Plympton Castle
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Shaugh Prior village cross: a wayside cross at the road junction 150m east of the parish church
• Settlement on Wigford Down S of Durance
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Efford Fort and Efford Emplacement
• Part of Eylesbarrow watershed reave
• Round barrow N of Cadworthy Wood
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Plympton Priory
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Laira Emplacement, immediately south west of Laira Battery
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Camp NE of Berra Tor
• Cross S of Shaden Plantation
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Cross in grounds of Stentaway House, Billacombe
• Boringdon Camp hillfort and associated remains
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Marchant's Cross: a wayside cross 700m south east of Meavy
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Round barrow on Burrow Hill
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Lee Moor Tramway Bridge
• Part of Eylesbarrow Reave
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Deer park and rabbit warren at Newnham Park
• Laira Battery
• The Remains of Longstone Manor House, Wind Strew and associated features
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 100m west of Princes Cottages
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Wigford Down cross: a wayside cross 230m WNW of Cadover Bridge
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Hut circle on Wigford Down
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Fort Bovisand
• Cawsand Fort
• Fort Stamford
• Crownhill Fort
• Breakwater fort
• Inswork Chapel
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Three hut circles on south part of Wigford Down
• Hut circles W of Saddlesborough
• Three hut circles NW of Cadworthy
• Holy well called St Julian's Well