Plymleigh House Substation

Plymleigh House Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Plymleigh House Substation is situated nearby to Pike Road Post Office, as well as near the historic site Laira Battery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Laira Battery and Fort Efford.

Laira Battery

Historic site

Laira Battery 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. Laira Battery is situated 1,700 feet northeast of Plymleigh House 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 2,200 feet northeast of Plymleigh House Substation.

Saltram House

Historic building

Photo: Chilli Head, CC BY 2.0.

Saltram House is a grade I listed George II era house in Plympton, Devon, England. It was deemed by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner to be "the most impressive country house in Devon". Saltram House is situated 3,700 feet east of Plymleigh House 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.

Plymleigh House Substation

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

50.38523° or 50° 23′ 7″ north

Longitude

-4.09737° or 4° 5′ 51″ west

Operator

National Grid Electricity Distribution

Open location code

9C2Q9WP3+33

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13200957536

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Highlights include Pike Road Post Office and Efford Marsh Nature Reserve.

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