Long Quarry Point

Long Quarry Point is a coastal promontory below Wall's Hill in Torquay, Devon, England. The site is part of the Hope's Nose to Wall's Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Photo: Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kents Cavern and Babbacombe Theatre.

Kents Cavern

Cave

Photo: Jcg2006, Public domain.

Kents Cavern is a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable both for its archaeological and geological features. The cave system is open to the public and has been a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1952 and a Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1957.

Babbacombe Theatre

Theater building

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Babbacombe Theatre is a theatre in Babbacombe in Torquay, South Devon, England. Refurbished in 2009, the venue has been part of the Bay's tourism industry since the 1930s, and is known for staging variety shows, particularly since 1986 when Colin Matthews took over the venue.

Gleneagles Hotel

Hotel

Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gleneagles Hotel was a hotel in Torquay, Devon, England. The 41-bed establishment, which opened in the 1960s, was the inspiration for Fawlty Towers, a British situation comedy first broadcast in the mid-1970s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Babbacombe and Ellacombe.

Babbacombe

Suburb

Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Babbacombe is a district of Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable for Babbacombe Model Village, the Babbacombe Theatre and its clifftop green, Babbacombe Downs, from which Oddicombe Beach is accessed via Babbacombe Cliff Railway.

Ellacombe

Suburb

Photo: Chislopuk, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ellacombe is a district of Torquay, Devon. Ellacombe is home to Ellacombe Primary school, which is known to be the only place in Torquay that still has a fully standing World War II air raid shelter.

St Marychurch

Suburb

Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Marychurch is an area of Torquay, in the Torbay district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. It is one of the oldest settlements in South Devon.

Long Quarry Point

Type: Locality
Description: Coastal promontory in Devon, England
Category: headland
Location: Torbay, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.47586° or 50° 28′ 33″ north

Longitude

-3.49782° or 3° 29′ 52″ west

Open location code

9C2RFGG2+8V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 364695965

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=headland

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

Wikidata ID

Q60763065

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