No. 5 Basin

No. 5 Basin is a docking basin in Plymouth, England. No. 5 Basin is situated nearby to the suburb Keyham, as well as near the locality Camel’s Head.

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMNB Devonport and Keyham railway station.

HMNB Devonport

Military installation

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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.

Keyham railway station

Railway station

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Keyham railway station is a suburban station in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. It is 249 miles 25 chains from London Paddington via Box and Plymouth Millbay. The station is close to the Devonport dockyard.

RM Tamar

Military installation

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Royal Marines Tamar or more commonly RM Tamar, is a Royal Marines military installation specialising in landing craft training and operations located on the northern bank of Weston Mill Lake at the north end of HMNB Devonport at Plymouth in Devon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keyham and Morice Town.

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.

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.