Forder is a village in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Forder

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

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

There are a number of country parks near Forder including Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Kit Hill Country Park is one of Forder's best, nearby hills to visit in Forder.

The area around Forder features a number of interesting villages including Cremyll, and Botallack.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Forder like Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Forder History

There are some historic monuments around Forder:

• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Tregantle Fort
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Slight univallate hillfort called Cadson Bury
• Round on Berry Down
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Woodland fort
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Round at Berry Farm
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Inswork Chapel
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Knowle battery
• Breakwater fort
• Ernesettle battery
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Scraesdon Fort
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Agaton fort
• Eastern King battery
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Cawsand Fort