Plympton Erle

Plympton Erle is a locality in Plymouth, England. Plympton Erle is situated nearby to the locality Marsh Mills, as well as near the suburb Underwood.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saltram House and Laira Battery.

Saltram House

Historic building

Photo: Chilli Head, CC BY 2.0.

Saltram House is a grade I listed George II era house in Plympton, Devon, England. It was deemed by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner to be "the most impressive country house in Devon".

Laira Battery

Historic site

Laira Battery is a former 19th-century Fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was built to defend the landward approaches to the North East of Plymouth.

Fort Efford

Fort

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fort Efford is a former 19th-century Fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was built to defend the landward approaches to the North East of Plymouth.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laira and Efford.

Laira – previously recorded as Lare, Lary poynte, the Leerie, and the Lairy – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the River Plym from the Cattewater up to Marsh Mills in Plymouth, Devon, England.

Efford

Suburb

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Efford is an historic manor formerly in the parish of Eggbuckland, Devon, England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of Plymouth to become a large, mostly post-World War II, eastern suburb of the city.

Plympton

Town

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.

Plympton Erle

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Plympton Earle”, “Plympton Maurice”, “Plympton Saint Maurice”, and “Plymton Earle”
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.37996° or 50° 22′ 48″ north

Longitude

-4.08518° or 4° 5′ 7″ west

Elevation

72 feet (22 metres)

Open location code

9C2Q9WH7+XW

GeoNames ID

2640191

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