Donnington Drive Substation

Donnington Drive Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Donnington Drive Substation is situated nearby to Garden of Remembrance, as well as near the school Austin Farm Academy.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Austin and Efford Library.

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 2,600 feet northeast of Donnington Drive Substation.

Efford Library

Library

Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Efford Library is situated 2,300 feet south of Donnington Drive Substation.

Forder Battery

Fort

Forder 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. Forder Battery is situated 3,700 feet north of Donnington Drive Substation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Efford and Eggbuckland.

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.

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.

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.

Donnington Drive Substation

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

50.39418° or 50° 23′ 39″ north

Longitude

-4.11028° or 4° 6′ 37″ west

Operator

National Grid Electricity Distribution

Open location code

9C2Q9VVQ+MV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13200988067

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