Torpoint is a Town in the county of Cornwall.

Torpoint postcode: PL11 2LH

Retail in Torpoint

There are great places to visit near Torpoint 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 Torpoint.

There are a number of country parks near Torpoint 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 Torpoint if you like towns.

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

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

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

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

Torpoint History

There are some historic monuments around Torpoint:

• Mount Batten: 17th century artillery tower, Civil War breastwork, and World War II remains
• Inswork Chapel
• The Royal Citadel mid 17th century bastioned artillery defence, incorporating late 16th century artillery fort and 18th century statue, on the Hoe
• Bullpoint gunpowder magazines and camber
• Eastern King battery
• Worth's Cattedown Bone Cave 150m north of Cattedown Wharves
• Stonehouse Town Wall
• Knowle battery
• Scraesdon Fort
• Civil War fieldworks at Inswork Point
• Medieval chapel at Erth Barton
• Medieval chapel in the grounds of Shillingham Manor
• Plymouth Castle (remains of)
• Mount Pleasant Redoubt
• Slip No 1 (The Covered Slip), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Ernesettle battery
• Bowden Battery
• Resolution Fort: Civil War town defences at Friary Court
• Tregantle Fort
• Eggbuckland Keep
• The West Ropery (site of), South Yard, Devonport Dockyard
• Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House
• Blockhouse at the Garden Battery
• Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
• Ballast pond at Torpoint 690m west of North Corner Quay
• Civil War battery at Wearde Quay
• Promontory fort, medieval chapel of St Michael's and Second World War radar station at Rame Head
• Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House
• Woodland fort
• Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
• Holy well called St Julian's Well
• Fort Bovisand
• 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
• Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
• Crownhill Fort
• Western Kings artillery tower
• Round on Berry Down
• Cawsand Fort
• Agaton fort
• Bowl barrow immediately south of the cricket ground and pavilion in Mount Edgcumbe Park
• Whitesand Bay (or Tregonhawke) battery
• Breakwater fort
• Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
• Fort Stamford
• Firestone Bay artillery tower
• Trehan Cross, at Trehan village
• Royal Commission Fortification: unfinished battery at Knatterbury
• Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
• Austin Fort and section of military road
• The coastal fortifications of Drake's Island
• Staddon Heights Defences including Fort Staddon Fort, Brownhill Battery, Watch House Battery, Staddon Heights Battery, Staddon Battery and associated features and structures