Guard Room Mt Batten Substation

Places of Interest Nearby

The Bridge

Restaurant

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The Bridge is a restaurant, which is situated 800 feet west of Guard Room Mt Batten Substation.

Boringdon Arms

Pub

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Boringdon Arms is a pub, which is situated 640 feet northeast of Guard Room Mt Batten Substation.

Fort Stamford

Monument

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Stamford Fort is a 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 east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Fort Stamford is situated 1,100 feet south of Guard Room Mt Batten Substation.

Places in the Area

Mount Batten

Locality

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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.

Oreston

Suburb

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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.

Cattedown

Suburb

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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.

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