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.

Don't miss Tehidy's hiking areas if visiting the area around Cargreen.

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

There are a number of towns near Cargreen including Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

There are a several good hills in the area around Cargreen like Kit Hill Country Park.

Cremyll, and Botallack are great places to visit near Cargreen if you like villages.

The area around Cargreen's best historic buildings can be found at Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

There are a several good airports in the Cargreen area like Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Cargreen History

There are some historic monuments around Cargreen:

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