Beggar's Island is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Beggar's Island

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

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

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 Beggar's Island.

Beggar's Island has some unmissable towns nearby like Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

The area around Beggar's Island's best hills can be found at Kit Hill Country Park.

Beggar's Island has some unmissable villages nearby like Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

Beggar's Island has some unmissable airports nearby like Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Beggar's Island History

There are some historic monuments around Beggar's Island:

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