Turnchapel

Turnchapel is a suburb in Plymouth, England. Turnchapel is situated nearby to the suburb Hooe, as well as near the locality Mount Batten.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Boringdon Arms and Fort Stamford.

Boringdon Arms

Pub

Photo: MICHAEL ZAWADZKI, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boringdon Arms is a pub.

Fort Stamford

Monument

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 Hooe and Mount Batten.

Hooe

Suburb

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hooe is a suburb of Plymstock, Plymouth in the English county of Devon.

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.

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.

Turnchapel

Type: Suburb
Description: suburb of Plymstock, in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
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

Wikidata ID

Q131413957

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