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Holiday Park in the Heart of Rame Peninsular

Whitsand Bay Fort

Award Winning Family Holiday Resort

Whitsand Bay Fort is a luxury holiday resort that hugs the famous forgotten corner of Cornwall, with unspoiled panoramic views over Whitsand Bay, it’s stylish and homely self-catering holiday lodges quietly nestle into the undisturbed landscape, where the privately located touring and camping areas let you be at one with nature. Spend your evenings in our resort’s own historic The Fort Inn restaurant, or gaze over Plymouth’s skyline at night in your own exclusive sea-view lodge or historic holiday cottage.

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Whitsand Bay Fort

A Coastal Resort With 100+ Years of Documented History.

Partnered with English Heritage, let our resort take you back 100 years, to when it was an original coastal defence, protecting the principle Naval Bases of Plymouth. Explore our unforgettable Fort architecture where original cannons decorate the lining of the cliffs. Carefully tread the old, damp tunnels and read the hand-carved messages in the walls.

Since 1955 we have taken tremendous love and care into the restoration of historic artefacts and architecture throughout our resort, with many historians coming from near and far to relish at the unique location in which Whitsand Bay Fort sits.

Whitsand Bay Fort gives you the chance to step back in time to a different age. As our name suggests, we are situated on the grounds of a coastal fort that was built to help see off a potential attack from the French Navy during the ‘Napoleonic’ age. In operation with different Regiments of the Royal Artillery for over 65 years.

Whitsand Bay Fort

Our Rare Devon and Cornwall Location.

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Whitsand Bay Fort

A Great Place to Explore

Explore the hidden beaches, rural footpaths and historic architecture within, and around our resort. Or travel further afield and spend your day meandering around local fishing villages, souvenir shopping and devouring traditional home-made Cornish Pasties.

Discover real working harbours, the daily caught seafood restaurants and, the traditional multi-coloured terraced homes with quirky local pubs squeezed in-between. This truly is an area for the discerning traveller, who is looking for that authentic flavour of the West-Country.

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Whitsand Bay Fort

Step back in time and immerse yourself in the history of Whitsand Bay Fort.

The fort has 5 major gun emplacements, all facing seawards with underground ammunition rooms, some of which are still buried. The original glacis is still visible as are several tunnels, Caponiers and revetment walls around the dry moat. The fort became an important early Radar Station, protecting Plymouth’s western flank, and the original housing standing on the highest peak of the entire Rame Peninsula, is now a popular holiday cottage.

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Whitsand Bay Fort

Heritage Centre Whitsand Bay Fort

We are proud to say that we have teamed with English Heritage to preserve this fantastic piece of history so that our guests are also able to get a true insight of the inner workings of a fort with much of the original features still on view today.

Researchers have recently repaired the Victorian lifts back in to working order, and further works and research is ongoing. Four of the five vaulted rooms in the restaurant and bars have been exposed and restored to their former glory. The 19th century map designs have been recently recovered , and are on display in The Heritage Centre.

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Whitsand Bay Fort

Tales of Old Whitsand Bay Fort

An independent local charity who are based at the fort, have a remit to educate, research and showcase the rich maritime, industrial and military history of the Rame Peninsula. Regular events are hosted here, and around the area using escorted tours, re-enactment groups and local historians. It’s not all serious!

Regular ghost hunting tours are booked throughout the year, which take you into the less well visited elements of the fort. Smuggling on Whitsand Bay

Local smugglers from Kingsand and Cawsand, Looe and Polperro, often landed their contraband immediately below us here, as the shallow sandy beaches, and the remote location at the time, made it a favourite landing place of choice, prior to the goods being taken inland. Tales of skirmishes with the Revenue men are told to this day