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Watling's Castle ruins
23° 57.2′ N · 74° 33.5′ W · approximate
The roofless stone shell of a late-1700s Loyalist plantation house on the hill above Sandy Point, named - misleadingly - after the 17th-century buccaneer John Watling.
Practical
Coordinates from the Wikimedia Commons category (OSM maps the ruins about 1 km east, at 23.9536, -74.5478, so treat the position as approximate on the ground). The Commons photo notes no Watling built or lived there; the building later served as a church in the early 1900s and is abandoned. Reach by road; uneven ground.
Best for
History walk at the south end
Nearby
- French Bay Anchorage (San Salvador)0.6 NM away
- Grotto Beach and Sandy Point0.7 NM away
- La Crevasse (San Salvador)0.8 NM away
- Double Caves (San Salvador)1.1 NM away
- Great Cut (San Salvador)2.9 NM away
- Columbus underwater monument (Long Bay)3.8 NM away
- Southern Great Lake National Park3.8 NM away
- Columbus Landfall Monument (Long Bay, San Salvador)3.9 NM away