Castles and forts in Cornwall
The Discover Alone map has 115 castles and forts in Cornwall, England. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Water Tower, TrelissickCastle, fort or towerWater Tower, Trelissick is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it guarded fresh water for ships or…
War shelter, Pendennis CastleCastle, fort or towerWar shelter, Pendennis Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps people ran inside when alarms…
Trig point within Bartine Castle, Bartinney DownsCastle, fort or towerTrig point within Bartine Castle, Bartinney Downs is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the stone…
Trematon Castle, Trematon, SaltashCastle, fort or towerTrematon Castle, Trematon, Saltash is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it stood as a watchtower…
Trematon CastleCastleTrematon Castle stands as a ruined Norman shell keep near Saltash, built soon after the Conquest on the remains of an…
Toward Castle KayleCastle, fort or towerToward Castle Kayle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it stood as a watchtower above the coastal…
Tintagel Castle Summer 2004Castle, fort or towerTintagel Castle Summer 2004 is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the castle walls still hold the…
Tintagel Castle RuinsCastle, fort or towerTintagel Castle Ruins is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps kings and ghosts still argue inside the…
The Henrician Castle, Pendennis CastleCastle, fort or towerThe Henrician Castle, Pendennis Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it stood as a warning…
St Mawes Castle from FalmouthCastle, fort or towerSt Mawes Castle from Falmouth is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it watched the water for thieves…
St Mawes CastleScheduled monumentSt Mawes Castle is a clover-leaf artillery fort built for Henry VIII between 1540 and 1542 to guard the Carrick Roads…
St Illogan Church Bell TowerCastle, fort or towerSt Illogan Church Bell Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the bell struck not for prayer…
St Columb Minor Church TowerCastle, fort or towerSt Columb Minor Church Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the tower grew from a church…
St Catherine's Castle 16th century blockhouse, 19th century gun battery and 20th century gun emplacement at St Catherine's PointScheduled monumentSt Catherine's Castle is a 16th century blockhouse built under Henry VIII at St Catherine's Point near Fowey in…
St Benet's Chapel Tower, LanivetCastle, fort or towerSt Benet's Chapel Tower, Lanivet is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it stood as a quiet watchpost…
Slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury CastleScheduled monumentHelsbury Castle is a slight univallate hillfort with outworks containing a medieval chapel and beacon at Helsbury…
Saint Catherine's CastleCastleMnemo dropped the camera and watched the tunnel mouth swallow light. She wanted to leave, but the chamber wanted her to…
Ruined building, Kenidjack CastleCastle, fort or towerRuined building, Kenidjack Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps stones still stand where a…
Romano-British and early medieval settlement, medieval church, castle and associated features on Tintagel Island and adjoining mainlandScheduled monumentTintagel Island has worn many identities: a Roman road marker, a seasonal king's residence for Dumnonia, a…
Rear of Half-Moon Battery, Pendennis CastleCastle, fort or towerRear of Half-Moon Battery, Pendennis Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps soldiers stood at…
Radio TowerCastle, fort or towerRadio Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it stood as a watchful sentinel over the coastal…
Powderham Castle caravan parkCastle, fort or towerPowderham Castle caravan park is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps caravans still circle the castle…
Porthlune Cove and Caerhays CastleCastle, fort or towerPorthlune Cove and Caerhays Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the cove gave birth to the…
Penstowe CastleArchaeological placePenstowe Castle rises as an oval motte near Kilkhampton, built during the violent uncertainty of the Anarchy when local…
Pendennis Point from the Henrician CastleCastle, fort or towerPendennis Point from the Henrician Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the sea entered the…
Pendennis Castle from within the Governor's LodgingCastle, fort or towerPendennis Castle from within the Governor's Lodging is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the…
Outer rampart of Treryn Dinas cliff castleCastle, fort or towerOuter rampart of Treryn Dinas cliff castle is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the rampart marked…
Old Tower Mill on the HilltopCastle, fort or towerOld Tower Mill on the Hilltop is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps wind struck its stones while…
Motte castle 80m north west of the church at Week St MaryScheduled monumentEighty metres north west of the Week St Mary church stands a Norman motte castle, an earthwork mound built in the…
Launceston CastleCastleLaunceston Castle rose after 1068 as Robert the Count of Mortain's administrative heart for Cornwall, forcing a whole…
Fort PicklecombeCastle, fort or towerFort Picklecombe stands in Cornwall as a castle, fort or tower whose lease passed from Lord Mount Edgcumbe to the War…
Dingerein CastleArchaeological placeDingerein Castle is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort with an annexe, 240 metres north west of Curgurrel Farm in…
Crane CastleCastleCrane Castle is a cliff castle on the Cornish coast where artificial ditches and natural precipices joined to form an…
Cliffs adjacent to Castle RockCastle, fort or towerCliffs adjacent to Castle Rock is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the cliffs are the castle…
Cliff castle on Rosemullion HeadScheduled monumentCliff castle on Rosemullion Head stands as a scheduled monument in Cornwall, marked only by a point on an official list…
Cliff castle at Tubby's HeadScheduled monumentCliff castle at Tubby's Head is a scheduled monument in Cornwall, a formal recognition that the site matters enough to…
Castle HillArchaeological placeCastle Hill in Mere, Wiltshire, was a six-towered stone fortress built by Richard, the Earl of Cornwall, in 1253. Men…
Castle Hill Cemetery, LostwithielCastle, fort or towerCastle Hill Cemetery, Lostwithiel is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the hill holds both dead and…
Castle GothaArchaeological placeCastle Gotha is a small oval defended settlement on a north-east facing hillslope above St Austell Bay, occupied from…
Castle Cove, St MawesCastle, fort or towerCastle Cove, St Mawes is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the cove itself is the castle, a bowl of…
Castle CanykeCastleCastle Canyke is an eighteen-acre Iron Age hillfort near Bodmin where six thousand men trained for the Prayer Book…
Castle an DinasArchaeological placeCastle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort on Castle Downs near St Columb Major, built with three concentric rings of…
Cardinham CastleArchaeological placeCardinham Castle belonged to Richard Fitz Turold in the eleventh century, making it one of the oldest recorded power…
Bury Down BT-TowerCastle, fort or towerBury Down BT-Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it watched the coast for invaders or marked…
Bury CastleScheduled monumentBury Castle in Cornwall stands as a scheduled monument, marked on the official heritage list though its boundaries…
Bude CastleCastle, fort or towerBude Castle stands as a ruined castle in Cornwall, England, reduced to ghostly foundations where the sea now claims the…
Bartine CastleArchaeological placeBartine Castle is a Bronze Age enclosure holding eight round cairns, not a knight's fortress at all. It sits 460 metres…
Port EliotCastlePort Eliot is a castle in Cornwall, England. Perhaps its stones still hold the heat of forgotten arguments. Maybe the…
Little DennisCastleLittle Dennis is a castle in Cornwall, England. Perhaps children chased shadows across its stones while adults argued…
Castle on St Michael's MountCastle, fort or towerCastle on St Michael's Mount is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps the castle watched the sea while…
Clifftop TowerCastle, fort or towerClifftop Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Cornwall, England. Perhaps it stood tall against storms and invaders.…
Restormel CastleCastleYes. This is a new feature request. Use the facts above as the target shape. Show the requested visible change, and ask…
Maen CastleArchaeological placeMaen Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Cornwall. The saved point is the map point or the…
Castle DoreArchaeological placeNo clear Dore fact supplied. I need the missing fact, not a guess.- Wheal Castle (Boswedden Mine)RuinsWheal Castle, also called Boswedden Mine, still stands as a ruin in Cornwall, a place where human hands once cut…
- Wayside cross 515m north east of Castle FarmScheduled monumentOne worked stone shaft still stands 515m north east of Castle Farm, a medieval wayside cross in Cornwall that marked a…
- Veryan Castle multiple enclosure fort and annexe 500m south west of Churchtown FarmScheduled monumentVeryan Castle is a multiple enclosure fort and annexe listed as a scheduled monument half a kilometre south west of…
- Upton Castle, 500m SSW of Upton Barton FarmScheduled monumentUpton Castle is a scheduled monument in Cornwall, a formal recognition that the earth itself holds a story worth…
- Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentTrematon Castle stands near Saltash as a Norman motte and bailey from the early twelfth century, its circular stone…
- The Rumps Cliff CastleArchaeological placeThe Rumps Cliff Castle is one of the most dramatic in Cornwall because three lines of banks and ditches cut off a…