Fort Stamford Health & Fitness

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Fort Stamford

Monument

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stamford Fort is a 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 east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Fort Stamford is situated 600 feet south of Fort Stamford Health & Fitness.

Boringdon Arms

Pub

Photo: MICHAEL ZAWADZKI, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boringdon Arms is a pub, which is situated 810 feet north of Fort Stamford Health & Fitness.

The Bridge

Restaurant

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The Bridge is a restaurant, which is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Fort Stamford Health & Fitness.

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Mount Batten

Locality

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Mount Batten is a 24-metre -tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten, MP and Surveyor of the Navy.

Oreston

Suburb

Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oreston, formerly a village on the southern bank of the Cattewater, is now a suburb of Plymouth. It is recorded as Horestone on the 1591 Spry Map of Plimmouth.

Cattedown

Suburb

Photo: Adrian Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cattedown is an inner city suburb of Plymouth, Devon. Its position beside the River Plym estuary just short of the mouth led to its early settlement. It is believed that the name Cattedown originated from a rocky outcrop nearby on the River Plym that looked like a cat.

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