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.

Tehidy is a great place to visit close to Kingsand if you like hiking areas.

Country Parks to visit near Kingsand include 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 Kingsand if you like towns.

Hills to visit near Kingsand include Kit Hill Country Park.

Villages to visit near Kingsand include Cremyll, and Botallack.

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is a great place to visit close to Kingsand if you like historic buildings.

Don't miss Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport's airports if visiting the area around Kingsand.

Kingsand History

There are some historic monuments around Kingsand:

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