Foxfield Close No 2 Substation

Foxfield Close No 2 Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Foxfield Close No 2 Substation is situated nearby to the church St Mary the Virgin, as well as near the suburb Laira.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Efford Library and Fort Efford.

Efford Library

Library

Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Efford Library is situated 1,500 feet northwest of Foxfield Close No 2 Substation.

Fort Efford is a former 19th-century Fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was built to defend the landward approaches to the North East of Plymouth. Fort Efford is situated 3,400 feet northeast of Foxfield Close No 2 Substation.

Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

Building

Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Plymouth, Devon, England. The depot is operated by Great Western Railway and is where their fleet of Class 802 InterCity Express Trains and remaining Castle Class trains are overhauled. Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is situated 1,500 feet south of Foxfield Close No 2 Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laira and Efford.

Laira

Suburb

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Laira – previously recorded as Lare, Lary poynte, the Leerie, and the Lairy – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the River Plym from the Cattewater up to Marsh Mills in Plymouth, Devon, England.

Efford

Suburb

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Efford is an historic manor formerly in the parish of Eggbuckland, Devon, England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of Plymouth to become a large, mostly post-World War II, eastern suburb of the city.

Lipson

Suburb

Lipson is a ward in the city of Plymouth, England. 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.

Foxfield Close No 2 Substation

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

50.38566° or 50° 23′ 8″ north

Longitude

-4.10471° or 4° 6′ 17″ west

Operator

National Grid Electricity Distribution

Open location code

9C2Q9VPW+74

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13197986905

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Highlights include St Mary the Virgin and Efford Valley Wildlife park.

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