St John’s Down

Places of Interest

All Saints Church, Millbrook

Church

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All Saints Church is a Church of England parish church in Millbrook, Cornwall, England, UK. It was built in 1893–95 and has been Grade II listed since 1987. The war memorial on the edge of the church grounds also became Grade II listed in 2016.

Scraesdon Fort

Military installation

Photo: Bill Booth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scraesdon Fort, near the village of Antony, is one of several forts in South East Cornwall which formed part of the ring of forts surrounding Plymouth to protect Plymouth Sound and, in particular, the naval dockyard of Devonport from enemy naval attack.

HMS Scylla

Reef

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HMS Scylla was the last Leander-class frigate built for the Royal Navy. She was the fifth vessel in the Royal Navy to be named after the Sea Monster who devoured the victims of the whirlpool, Charybdis, and was commonly referred to as "Aberdeen's frigate". HMS Scylla is situated 2 miles south of St John’s Down.

Places in the Area

St John

Village

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John is a coastal civil parish and a village in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 3 miles south of Saltash and 1.5 miles south-west of Torpoint.

Freathy

Village

Photo: John Poyser, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Freathy is a beach and coastal settlement on the Rame Peninsula in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Freathy is accessible by the coast road along which runs the South West Coast Path.

Antony

Village

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Antony is a village and coastal civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the Rame Peninsula about three miles west of Torpoint and has a shop, a pub and a garage. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 438.

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