Forder Lake is a Area in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Forder Lake

There are great places to visit near Forder Lake 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 Forder Lake.

The area around Forder Lake features a number of interesting country parks including Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are great places to visit near Forder Lake if you like towns.

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

The area around Forder Lake boasts some of the best villages including Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

Airports to visit near Forder Lake include Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Forder Lake History

There are some historic monuments around Forder Lake:

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