Saltash is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Retail in Saltash

There are great places to visit near Saltash 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 Saltash.

The area around Saltash boasts some of the best country parks including Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

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

Places near Saltash feature a number of interesting hills including Kit Hill Country Park.

There are a several good villages in the Saltash area like Cremyll, and Botallack.

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

Saltash's best nearby airports can be found at Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport.

Saltash History

There are some historic monuments around Saltash:

• Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
• Fort Stamford
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• 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
• Dovecot 520m north-east of Whitsand Bay Hotel
• Two round barrows on Viverdon Down
• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Camp NE of Berra Tor
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Dupath holy well, 45m NNE of Dupath Farm
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Ernesettle battery
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Stump Cross, 600m west of Sheviock Barton
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures
• Round on Berry Down
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Bohetherick lime kiln with adjacent quay and ancillary buildings, 140m south east of Cotehele Bridge
• Knowle battery
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• D-Day landing craft maintenance site, 170m north of Saltash Pier
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Cawsand Fort
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Buckland Abbey
• Agaton fort
• Bowden Battery
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Crownhill Fort
• Eastern King battery
• Woodland fort
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Eggbuckland Keep
• Henge 315m north west of Westcott
• Scraesdon Fort
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Breakwater fort
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Inswork Chapel
• Okeltor 19th century arsenic, copper and tin mine
• Tregantle Fort
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Round at Berry Farm
• Westcott Cross, 480m south east of Westcott Lodge
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Gawton arsenic mine and flue
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Fort Bovisand
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves