Whitleigh
Whitleigh is a district area and is in the electoral ward of Budshead in the city of Plymouth in the county of Devon. it had district borders with Southway, Honicknowle, West park, Crownhill and St Budeaux. Whitleigh has a population of 7870…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Woodland Fort and Sir John Hunt Community Sports College.
Woodland Fort
Fort
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodland Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth, England. Currently owned by Plymouth City Council, the site is in use but largely derelict.
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College
School
Sir John Hunt Community Sports College is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Whitleigh area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.
Knowles Battery
Fort
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knowles Battery is a former 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tamerton Foliot and Southway.
Tamerton Foliot
Suburb
Photo: Lobsterthermidor, CC0.
Tamerton Foliot is a village and former civil parish situated in the north of Plymouth, in the Plymouth district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England.
Southway
Suburb
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southway is a large suburban housing estate in north-west Plymouth in the English county of Devon. The name is believed to have derived from the route into Plymouth often used by Buckland Abbey monks, which was known as the "South Way".
Honicknowle
Suburb
Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Honicknowle is an area and ward of the city of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It borders with West Park, Crownhill, Ham, Whitleigh and Pennycross areas of Plymouth. It was previously part of Knackersknowle.
Whitleigh
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.4199° or 50° 25′ 12″ northLongitude
-4.15126° or 4° 9′ 5″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9C2QCR9X+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1629906626OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Polish—“Whitleigh” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Whitleigh”
- Polish: “Whitleigh”
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