Hamoaze
The Hamoaze is an estuarine stretch of the English tidal River Tamar, between its confluence with the River Lynher and Plymouth Sound.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St James and HMNB Devonport.
HMNB Devonport
Military installation
His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport is the largest naval base in Western Europe, and one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy.
Dockyard railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY 4.0.
Dockyard railway station is a Great Western Railway suburban station on the Cornish Main Line in Devonport, Plymouth, England. As the name implies, it serves Devonport Dockyard. It is 248 miles 60 chains from London Paddington via Box and Plymouth Millbay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Morice Town and Devonport.
Morice Town
Suburb
Morice Town is a suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It named after Sir William Morice who owned the land at the time that it was being developed for housing for the employees in the Dockyard.
Devonport
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Devonport formerly named Plymouth Dock or just Dock, is a district of Plymouth in the ceremonial county of Devon, England, although it was, at one time, the more important settlement.
Keyham
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keyham is a Victorian-built area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It was built to provide dense cheap housing just outside the wall of HM Dockyard Devonport for the thousands of civilian workmen.
Hamoaze
- Type: Estuary
- Description: estuarine stretch of the tidal River Tamar
- Categories: estuary and body of water
- Location: Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Hamoaze from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Hamoaze” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хамоазе”
- Catalan: “Hamoaze”
- Cebuano: “Hamoaze”
- Cornish: “An Leysek”
- Dutch: “Hamoaze”
- French: “Hamoaze”
- German: “Hamoaze”
- Irish: “Hamoaze”
- Italian: “Hamoaze”
- Japanese: “ハーモウズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamoaze”
- Norwegian: “Hamoaze”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hamoaze”
- Slovenian: “Hamoaze”
- Spanish: “Hamoaze”
- Swedish: “Hamoaze”
- Welsh: “An Leysek”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Torpoint and Mount Wise.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Moon Cove and Devonport railway station.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hamoaze”. Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.