Douglass Road Substation

Douglass Road Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Douglass Road Substation is situated nearby to the community center Efford Youth Centre, as well as near the cemetery Plymouth Blitz Mass Burial Site.

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 southwest of Douglass Road Substation.

Fort Efford

Fort

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 2,800 feet east of Douglass Road Substation.

Fort Austin

Fort

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fort Austin 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 Austin is situated 3,400 feet north of Douglass Road Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Efford and Laira.

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.

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.

Eggbuckland

Suburb

Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Eggbuckland is a suburb of the city of Plymouth, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Before the Second World War Eggbuckland was a small village a few miles north of Plymouth.

Douglass Road Substation

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

50.39024° or 50° 23′ 25″ north

Longitude

-4.10458° or 4° 6′ 17″ west

Operator

National Grid Electricity Distribution

Open location code

9C2Q9VRW+35

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13197996370

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