Rochford Crescent Substation
Rochford Crescent Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Rochford Crescent Substation is situated nearby to Mill Ford School, as well as near the forest Budshead Wood.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Knowles Battery and Agaton Fort.
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. Knowles Battery is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Rochford Crescent Substation.
Agaton Fort
Fort
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Agaton Fort is situated 1,600 feet southwest of Rochford Crescent Substation.
St Aidan
Church
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Aidan is a church, which is situated 1,900 feet west of Rochford Crescent Substation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include King’s Tamerton and Whitleigh.
King’s Tamerton
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King's Tamerton is a suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. It was largely built post-war adjacent to St Budeaux and overlooking the Naval base and the Hamoaze which is the wide estuary of the River Tamar.
Whitleigh
Suburb
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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…
Tamerton Foliot
Suburb
Photo: Lobsterthermidor, CC0.
Tamerton Foliot is a village situated in the north of Plymouth, in the Plymouth district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. It also lends its name to the ecclesiastical parish of the same name.
Rochford Crescent Substation
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.41881° or 50° 25′ 8″ northLongitude
-4.17017° or 4° 10′ 13″ westOpen location code
9C2QCR9H+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 10931776305
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mill Ford School and Budshead Wood.
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