Editing Cawsand (section)

==History==
The settlement is first recorded in 1404.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cornwall Council |title=Kingsand and Cawsand Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan |publisher=Cornwall Council |year=2012 |pages=8 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1596, local militia repelled an [[Attack on Cawsand|attack by Spanish forces]] and defences were built soon after.<ref name="Carew">{{cite book|last1=Carew|first1=Richard|title=The Survey of Cornwall|date=1953|publisher=Melrose|page=37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lARKAQAAIAAJ}}</ref> 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 [[artillery battery|battery]] to mount about 10 guns to cover the western entrance to [[Plymouth Sound]] by the breakwater. Released by the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] in 1926, it remained derelict until it was converted into residential accommodation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cawsand Fort |url=https://www.iwalkcornwall.co.uk/pi/cawsand_fort |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=www.iwalkcornwall.co.uk}}</ref>

Correspondence from 1801 to 1803 shows that [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Admiral Nelson]] had stayed in Cawsand<ref>''A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence or Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood'',G.L Newnham Collingwood, Volume 1, 2nd edition, pp. 111–114</ref> and it is rumoured that he had dined at the Ship Inn, which burned down in 2013 after several years of abandonment. The site has been cleared and is now being rebuilt by The Peninsula Trust which plans to turn the site into a cafe and affordable housing.<ref>The Old Ship Inn, Cawsand, www.thepeninsulatrust.org.uk</ref>