Cargreen is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Cargreen postcode: PL12 6PF

Retail in Cargreen

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

There are a several good hiking areas in the area around Cargreen like Tehidy.

Cargreen has some unmissable country parks nearby like Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Towns to visit near Cargreen include Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

Don't miss Kit Hill Country Park's hills if visiting the area around Cargreen.

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

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is a great place to visit close to Cargreen if you like historic buildings.

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

Cargreen History

There are some historic monuments around Cargreen:

• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Prince of Wales Mine at Harrowbarrow
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Scraesdon Fort
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Bowden Battery
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Round on Berry Down
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• New Consols Mine: surface, buried and underground remains, Luckett
• Gunnislake Clitters copper, tin, arsenic and wolfram mine
• Buckland Abbey
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Knowle battery
• Tregantle Fort
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Crownhill Fort
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Bowl barrow 60m north-west of Tamar View Farm
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Canal, lock, island and salmon keeping pond known collectively as the Tamar Canal
• Two bowl barrows 185m east of Tamar View Farm
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Agaton fort
• Ernesettle battery
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Round barrows on Hingston Down
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Enclosure on Kit Hill
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Morwellham Quay: transport infrastructure, part of the water control system and a manganese mill
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Eastern King battery
• Woodland fort
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Fort Stamford
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Camp NE of Berra Tor
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Inswork Chapel
• Round at Berry Farm
• Early 20th century arsenic works at the Devon Great Consols Mine