Plympton Erle
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.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 Crabtree and Laira.
Crabtree
Locality
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crabtree is a suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Originally, it was a small village beside the coaching route around the top of the Plym Estuary where travellers stopped before or after crossing the marshland known as Marsh Mills and the road to Plympton then Exeter and London.
Laira
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 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″ northLongitude
-4.08518° or 4° 5′ 7″ westElevation
72 feet (22 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9WH7+XWGeoNames ID
2640191
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