Oakham Road Substation

Oakham Road Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Oakham Road Substation is situated nearby to St Peter’s RC Primary School, as well as near the forest Woodland Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Knowles Battery and Woodland 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 1,800 feet southwest of Oakham Road Substation.

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. Woodland Fort is situated 2,800 feet southeast of Oakham Road Substation.

St Chad’s

Church

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Chad’s is a church, which is situated 2,300 feet east of Oakham Road Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitleigh and Tamerton Foliot.

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.

Ernesettle

Suburb

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ernesettle is mentioned in the Domesday Book, which documented land in England and Wales, and describes as an ‘old Saxon manor’ there. By the 15th century, there were two farms, Great Ernesettle and Little Ernesettle, both named after William Ernstell, a freeholder of Budshead, who owned land here in 1428.

Oakham Road Substation

Type: Electrical substation
Category: industry
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.42025° or 50° 25′ 13″ north

Longitude

-4.16091° or 4° 9′ 39″ west

Operator

National Grid Electricity Distribution

Open location code

9C2QCRCQ+3J

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11267905933

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St Peter’s RC Primary School and Woodland Wood.

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