Kingsand is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Kingsand postcode: PL10 1NP

Retail in Kingsand

There are great places to visit near Kingsand 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 Kingsand.

Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park are great places to visit near Kingsand if you like country parks.

There are a several good towns in the Kingsand area like Callington, Polperro, and St Ives.

There are a number of hills near to Kingsand including Kit Hill Country Park.

Kingsand has some unmissable villages nearby like Cremyll, and Botallack.

There are a number of historic buildings near to Kingsand including Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Kingsand History

There are some historic monuments around Kingsand:

• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Breakwater fort
• Woodland fort
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Round on Berry Down
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Crownhill Fort
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Fort Bovisand
• Ernesettle battery
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Eastern King battery
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Scraesdon Fort
• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Inswork Chapel
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Tregantle Fort
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Bowden Battery
• Agaton fort
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Fort Stamford
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Cawsand Fort
• Knowle battery
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures