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词条 Cawsand
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  1. Cawsand Fort

  2. Twinning

  3. References

  4. External links

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Cawsand ({{Lang-kw|Porthbugh}}) and Kingsand are twin villages in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.[1] 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 now is situated on the River Tamar). Once a renowned smuggling village, Cawsand now has three public houses (the Cross Keys Inn, the Devonport Inn and the Halfway house Inn) and a hotel (the Cawsand Bay Hotel).

Cawsand is within Mount Edgcumbe Country Park. There are frequent bus 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) and a pilot gig club (Rame Gig Club).

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

Cawsand Fort

In 1596 a Spanish attack was seen off by the local militia and defences were built soon after.[2] Cawsand Fort (at {{Coord|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

Cawsand is twinned with Porspoder in Brittany, France.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}

References

1. ^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston {{ISBN|978-0-319-23146-3}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Carew|first1=Richard|title=The Survey of Cornwall|date=1953|publisher=Melrose|page=37|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lARKAQAAIAAJ&q=}}

External links

  • Victorian Forts data sheet on Cawsand Bay Battery
  • Rame Pilot Gig Club
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5 : Villages in Cornwall|Military history of Cornwall|Forts of Plymouth|Buildings and structures in Cornwall|Forts in Cornwall

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