Cawsand

Cawsand
Cornish: Porthbugh
Cawsand  Cawsand shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SX434502
Civil parish	Maker-with-Rame
Unitary authority	Cornwall
Ceremonial county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TORPOINT
Postcode district	PL10
Dialling code	01752
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	South East Cornwall
List of places: UK • England • Cornwall

Cawsand (Cornish: Porthbugh) and Kingsand are twin villages in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the Rame Peninsula and is in the parish of Maker-with-Rame.

Cawsand overlooks Plymouth Sound and adjoins Kingsand, formerly on the border of Devon and Cornwall (the border has since been moved and is the River Tamar). Once a renowned smuggling centre, Cawsand now has one public houses and a hotel (the Cawsand Bay Hotel the Cross Keys Inn.^{[citation needed]}

Cawsand is within Mount Edgcumbe Country Park. There are frequent bus and ferry services to the city of Plymouth which is three miles to the north across Plymouth Sound. There is also a ferry service in the summer from Cawsand beach to Plymouth Hoe.

The Rame Peninsula is sometimes known as being in the Forgotten Corner of Cornwall.

Cawsand Fort

Cawsand Fort (at 50°19′56″N 4°12′9″W) is sited just above the village. The fort is an 1860s Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom fort built on the site of a 1779 battery to mount about 10 guns to cover the western entrance to Plymouth Sound by the breakwater. Released by the Ministry of Defence in 1926 it remained derelict until it was converted into residential accommodation.

Twinning

• Porspoder (Brittany)

External links

• Victorian Forts data sheet on Cawsand Bay Battery

Media related to Cawsand at Wikimedia Commons