Windsor Road Substation
Windsor Road Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Windsor Road Substation is situated nearby to Efford Road Post Office, as well as near Compton Methodist Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Efford Library and Fort Austin.
Efford Library
Library
Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Efford Library is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Windsor 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 3,500 feet northeast of Windsor Road 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 3,900 feet north of Windsor Road Substation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eggbuckland and Efford.
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.
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.
Mannamead
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mannamead is a leafy suburb in the Compton ward of the city of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. It was an affluent Victorian and early Edwardian suburb with wide avenues such as Seymour Road, grand villas and Thorn Park.
Windsor Road Substation
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.39415° or 50° 23′ 39″ northLongitude
-4.11573° or 4° 6′ 57″ westOpen location code
9C2Q9VVM+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 13200990048
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