Stamford Fort is a 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport.

The Bridge

Restaurant

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Bridge is a restaurant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Batten and Oreston.

Mount Batten

Locality

Photo: Trysca, Public domain.

Mount Batten is a 24-metre tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten, MP and Surveyor of the Navy; it was previously known as How Stert.

Oreston

Suburb

Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oreston, formerly a village on the southern bank of the Cattewater, is now a suburb of Plymouth. It is recorded as Horestone on the 1591 Spry Map of Plimmouth.

Cattedown

Suburb

Photo: Adrian Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cattedown is an inner city suburb of Plymouth, Devon. Its position beside the River Plym estuary just short of the mouth led to its early settlement. It is believed that the name Cattedown originated from a rocky outcrop nearby on the River Plym that looked like a cat.

Turnchapel

Type: Suburb
Category: locality
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.35798° or 50° 21′ 29″ north

Longitude

-4.11752° or 4° 7′ 3″ west

Elevation

30 feet (9 metres)

Open location code

9C2Q9V5J+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9726460614

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

2635340

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