Oreston
Oreston, formerly a village on the southern bank of the Cattewater, is now a suburb of Plymouth. It is recorded as Horestone on the 1591 Spry Map of Plimmouth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kings Arms and Radford Bridge And Castle.
Radford Bridge And Castle
Building
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Radford Bridge And Castle is a building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plymstock and Cattedown.
Plymstock
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plymstock is a commuter suburb of Plymouth and former civil parish in the English county of Devon.
Cattedown
Suburb
Photo: Adrian Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cattedown is an inner city suburb of Plymouth, Devon. Its position beside the River Plym estuary just short of the mouth led to its early settlement. It is believed that the name Cattedown originated from a rocky outcrop nearby on the River Plym that looked like a cat.
Mount Batten
Locality
Photo: Trysca, Public domain.
Mount Batten is a 24-metre tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten, MP and Surveyor of the Navy; it was previously known as How Stert.
Oreston
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Plymstock, in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.36107° or 50° 21′ 40″ northLongitude
-4.10577° or 4° 6′ 21″ westElevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9C2Q9V6V+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 691962708OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Russian—“Oreston” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Арэстан”
- Dutch: “Oreston”
- Irish: “Oreston”
- Italian: “Oreston”
- Russian: “Орестон”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Oreston”. Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.