Crabtree
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.Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: suburb in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Crabtree, Devon” and “Crabtree, Plymouth”
- Postal code: PL3
Places of Interest
Highlights include Laira Battery and Fort Efford.
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.
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".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Efford and Laira.
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.
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.
Leigham
Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leigham is the name of an area of the city of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Originally a hamlet and manor separate from the city, urban expansion of the 20th century has meant that the area has become widely built up.
Crabtree
- Category: suburb
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.38873° or 50° 23′ 19″ northLongitude
-4.08957° or 4° 5′ 22″ westElevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9WQ6+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 8838318359OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Crabtree” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Crabtree, Plymouth”
- French: “Crabtree”
- Irish: “Crabtree”
- Urdu: “کریب ٹری، پلائیموتھ”
- Welsh: “Crabtree, Plymouth”
- Welsh: “Crabtree”
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