Castle Cove

Castle Cove is a bay in Dartmouth, South Hams District, England. Castle Cove is situated nearby to the locality Down End, as well as near the village Kingswear.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dartmouth Castle and Kingswear Castle.

Dartmouth Castle

Castle

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Dartmouth Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. The earliest parts of the castle date from the 1380s, when, in response to the threat of a French attack, the civic authorities created a small enclosure castle overlooking the mouth of the Dart estuary.

Kingswear Castle

Castle

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kingswear Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. It was constructed between 1491 and 1502 in response to the threat of French attack and was one of the first purpose-built artillery forts in Britain.

Kingswear railway station

Railway station

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY 4.0.

Kingswear railway station is the terminus of the Dartmouth Steam Railway, a heritage railway in Devon, England. It is situated in the centre of Kingswear, on the shores of the River Dart opposite Dartmouth.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Townstal and Blackpool.

Townstal

Neighborhood

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Townstal is an historic manor and parish on elevated ground now forming part of the western suburbs of the town of Dartmouth, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.

Blackpool

Hamlet

Photo: Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Blackpool is a hamlet.

Bowden

Hamlet

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bowden is a hamlet in the parish of Stoke Fleming in the South Hams district of Devon, England, about 1 mile west of Stoke Fleming. Bowden House was the seat of the Netherton family from about 1750.

Castle Cove

Type: Bay
Category: body of water
Location: Dartmouth, South Hams District, English Riviera and South Devon, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.34119° or 50° 20′ 28″ north

Longitude

-3.56562° or 3° 33′ 56″ west

Elevation

59 feet (18 metres)

Open location code

9C2R8CRM+FQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 731408349

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

11102891

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