Cassacawn is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Cassacawn

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

The area close to Cassacawn boasts some of the best hiking areas including Tehidy.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are some of Cassacawn best country parks to visit near Cassacawn.

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

Cassacawn is near some unmissable hills like Kit Hill Country Park,

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

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

The area around Cassacawn features a number of interesting airports including Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Cassacawn History

There are some historic monuments around Cassacawn:

• Barrow group on Greenbarrow Downs
• Medieval chapel of St Thomas Becket 45m east of the church, Priory Road in Bodmin
• Wayside cross in St Bartholomew's churchyard
• Ornamented cross shaft at Glynn
• Stannon Stone Circle, prehistoric field system, hut circle settlement, cairns, cist, linear boundaries and medieval building north of Dinnever Hill
• Wayside cross 120m north west of Callywith
• Medieval wayside cross in St Mabyn churchyard
• Prehistoric round cairn with inner and outer kerbs and a central cist 485m WNW of Showery Tor
• Wayside cross known as Peverell's Cross
• Platform cairn on Dinnever Hill, 510m north of Camperdown Farm
• Holy well in Michaelstow churchyard
• Wayside cross called Killboy Cross
• Two early Christian memorial stones 195m north of Welltown
• Lantern cross 60m north east of Lancarffe
• Carminow Cross, south east of Bodmin
• Blacktor Downs irregular aggregate field system and clearance cairn
• Round cairn 417m north-west of Showery Tor
• Roman fort called 'Nanstallon Roman fort' 135m south west of Tregear
• Prehistoric hut circle and field system 440m south west of Treswallock Cottage
• Platform cairn on Priddacombe Downs
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 10m west of the church
• Four prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 938m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Castle Hill, 740m north east of Bodmin parish church
• Prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, and religious and funerary remains on the middle and lower slopes west and south of Roughtor
• Two bowl barrows 70m north west and 50m south east of Tor View at Middle Taphouse
• Lesquite Cross, 160m NNW of Lesquite Farm
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Higher Lank Farm 10m south of the farm house
• Medieval tenement boundary between Louden Hill and King Arthur's Downs
• Stone hut circle 525m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Two wayside crosses in the grounds of Trewardale 34m WSW of the house
• Bury Castle
• Three bowl barrows 570m north east of Trewindle
• Treslea Cross, 750m ENE of Cardinham Church
• Round 410m west of Kenningstockmill
• Medieval long-house with adjacent enclosure 1.44km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Trevenning Cross and post-medieval guide post, 700m south west of Trevenning village
• Iron Age defended settlement called Penhargard Castle
• Bowl barrow 250m north west of Newpark
• Prehistoric embanked avenue with incorporated funerary cist 210m WNW of Showery Tor
• Hut circle 440yds (400m) SW of Candra
• Tawna Downs round barrows
• Two stone hut circles 130m south east of Highsteps
• The Louden Stone Circle, 950m ENE of Camperdown Farm
• Tor cairn on Showery Tor
• Medieval churchyard cross 20m south of the Church of St Bruerdus, Churchtown
• Two adjoining prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 960m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• A henge re-used as a medieval playing place, 75m north east of Castle Hill Farm
• Hut circles near New Hall
• Churchyard cross in Lanivet churchyard, 30m north of the church
• Prehistoric stone setting 62m north-west of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Cairn 485m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Kerbed cairn on Alex Tor
• St Protus's Cross, 330m east of Blisland church
• Prehistoric to post-medieval funerary, ritual and settlement remains on and around Louden Hill
• Churchyard cross in the cemetery at St Teath, 60m north west of the church
• Platform cairn 460m SW of Colquite Farm
• Deserted medieval building 55m south of Roughtor summit
• Bowl barrow known as Council Barrow
• Fenton Pits Cross, 210m WSW of Penburthen Farm
• Prehistoric round cairn 865m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor
• Churchyard cross in Lanhydrock churchyard
• Cross near Deviock Cottage
• Small multivallate hillfort with outworks known as Pencarrow Rounds
• Prehistoric house platform on south-east Roughtor, 985m NNW of Fernacre Farm
• Wayside cross in the grounds of Pencarrow, 130m SSE of Pencarrow House
• The Trevia Cross, at Sportsmans
• Slight univallate hillfort in Dunmere Wood 235m WNW of Crabb's Pool
• Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Medieval wayside cross at Blisland
• Round cairn 312m north-west of Showery Tor
• Tredinnick Cross, 450m east of Great Tredinnick
• St Ingunger Cross, 240m south-east of St Ingunger Farm
• Three bowl barrows 590m south west of Bedwindle forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Prehistoric standing stone 695m north-west of Showery Tor
• Prehistoric irregular field system with incorporated cairnfield and round cairn 1.08km north-west of Showery Tor
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system at Watergate
• Four bowl barrows north of Greymare Farm, forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Kerbed cairn 500m east of Casehill
• Bowl barrow 230m south west of Middle Taphouse Farm, forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Two platform cairns centred 485m SW of Colquite Farm
• Cross head N of Tregony Farm
• Multi-span bridge known as Respryn Bridge
• Standing stone 415m south west of Moorgate called 'Long Stone'
• Fernacre stone circle and two outlying stones
• Stone hut circle settlement and part of a coaxial field system 940m north east of Newton
• Prehistoric irregular field system and enclosures with incorporated stone hut circle and incorporated and adjacent cairns 558m north-west of Showery Tor
• Round cairn 567m north-west of Showery Tor
• Two bowl barrows 535m ENE of Fairy Cross forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• The Prior's Cross at Washaway
• The Castle Goff Stone and Valley Truckle Cross in St Julitta's churchyard
• Six cairns on Buttern Hill
• Medieval wayside cross in Blisland churchyard, 30m east of the church
• Earlier prehistoric hillfort with incorporated and adjacent cairns, chamber and medieval chapel on the summit ridge of Rough Tor and Little Rough Tor
• Helland Bridge
• Roughtor holy well, 333m south-west of Showery Tor
• Wayside cross at Bodwannick Manor Farm
• Round called Castle Goff
• Platform cairn 450m WSW of Colquite Farm
• Round cairn 460m north of Showery Tor
• Medieval longhouse settlement (known locally as Lamlavery), and an associated field system
• Churchyard cross in Lanivet churchyard, 5m west of the church
• Wayside cross at Trevia Walls
• Henge with stone circle called the Stripple Stones and adjacent bowl barrow 415m south east of Hawk's Tor
• Holy well near St James' Chapel
• Round cairn with central cist capstone and inner kerb 935m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Early Christian memorial stone and wayside cross in Cardinham churchyard, 10m east of the church
• Large regular stone circle called the Trippet Stones
• Five bowl barrows 550m north of Trewindle forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• Kerbed cairn 415m NNW of Candra
• Hut circle group and enclosure NE of Carwen
• Portal dolmen 400m north east of Lesquite Farm
• Wayside cross 55m north east of Laninval House
• Four Hole Cross, 200m north of Lord's Waste Farm
• Three wayside crosses in St Julitta's churchyard
• Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Reperry Cross, 550m ENE of Reperry Manor Farm
• Temple Old Bridge with adjacent ford and causeway
• Round 275m SSE of Little Delinuth
• Bowl barrow 420m south east of Higher Parkwalls
• Largin Castle
• Two round cairns, three enclosed and two open stone hut circle settlements, a rectangular enclosure and a medieval longhouse to the south of Carburrow Tor
• Three platform cairns 320m south-east of Moorgate
• Four bowl barrows on Bofarnel Downs forming part of a round barrow cemetery
• King Arthur's Hall
• Stone hut circle north of Dinnever Hill, 200m WNW of the Stannon Stone Circle
• Prehistoric ring cairn 810m NNE of Fernacre Farm
• Hut circles 330yds (300m) SW of Henneward
• Round cairn 625m north-west of Showery Tor
• Unenclosed hut circle settlement, field boundaries, enclosure and cairn on Blacktor Downs
• Two hut circles 400m WSW of Furhouse
• Prehistoric standing stone, medieval wayside cross and cross base and post-medieval guide post at Longstone
• Large multivallate hillfort known as 'Castle Canyke', 375m SSW of Castle Canyke Farmhouse
• Medieval wayside cross head 75m east of Newpark
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Crowdy Reservoir dam
• Prehistoric linear boundary, adjacent irregular aggregate field system and hut circles, incorporated cairns and medieval grave on north-west Roughtor
• Medieval churchyard cross in Michaelstow churchyard
• Churchyard cross in Cardinham churchyard, 5m south of the church
• St Bellarmin's Chapel
• Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra
• Wayside cross 220m north west of Steppes Farm
• Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury Castle
• Berrycombe Cross, on the north side of Berrycombe Road at its junction with Cardell Road
• Treslea Downs Cross 300m west of Mount
• Two small stone circles 530m ESE of King Arthur's Hall
• Large regular stone circle 560m north east of Leaze
• Motte and bailey castle called Cardinham Castle
• Prehistoric cairns and field boundary 450m south of the Louden Stone Circle
• Prehistoric hut circle settlement on Stanning Hill
• Trezance Holy Well and chapel enclosure
• Neolithic long cairn north-east of Louden Hill
• An early Christian memorial stone at Lancarffe
• Medieval tenement boundary with adjacent medieval field north of Dinnever Hill
• Three prehistoric house platforms on south-east Roughtor, 1km NNW of Fernacre Farm
• The Middle Moor Cross, 230m north-east of Camperdown Farm
• Prehistoric embanked platform cairn and linear boundary with superimposed medieval boundary and adjacent clearance cairn on Dinnever Hill
• Three bowl barrows 250m north east of Lowermoor