Cattedown

Cattedown is an inner city suburb of , Devon. Its position beside the 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.
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Photo: Adrian Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Marine Aquarium and Sutton Harbour.

Public aquarium
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The , which opened in May 1998, is situated in in . It is the largest aquarium in the UK and houses over 5,000 animals.

Marina
Photo: Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly known as Sutton Pool, is the original port of in , . It is still a busy fishing port and marina and is bounded on one side by the historic Barbican district.

Church
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The in , Devon, England is a grade II listed Anglican parish church. It was built 1851-1855 by Benjamin Ferrey, who had been a pupil of Pugin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mount Batten and Oreston.

Locality
Photo: Trysca, Public domain.
is a 24-metre -tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre peninsula in , Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten, MP and Surveyor of the Navy.

Suburb
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, formerly a village on the southern bank of the , is now a suburb of . It is recorded as Horestone on the 1591 Spry Map of Plimmouth.

Suburb
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is a ward in the city of , . It is an area with mixed terraced housing, some subdivided into bedsits and flats and a public open-space called 'Freedom Fields', a Civil War battle site where the townsfolk of nearby Plymouth resisted substantial Cavalier raiding parties and enabled the town to sustain the royalist siege.

Cattedown

Latitude
50.36755° or 50° 22′ 3″ north
Longitude
-4.12014° or 4° 7′ 13″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
9C2Q9V9H+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 691754047
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
13268627
Wiki­data ID
Q5054063
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Satellite Map

Discover Cattedown from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From French to Irish—“Cattedown” goes by many names.
  • French: “Cattedown”
  • Irish: “Cattedown”

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