Fort Stamford

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 , as an element of the plan for the defence of the at Devonport.
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  • Type: Monument
  • Description: fort in City of Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Stamford Fort”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Bridge and Boringdon Arms.

Restaurant
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a restaurant, which is situated 1,500 feet northwest of Fort Stamford.

Pub
Photo: MICHAEL ZAWADZKI, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a pub, which is situated 1,400 feet north of Fort Stamford.

Public aquarium
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The , which opened in May 1998, is situated in in . It is the largest aquarium in the UK and houses over 5,000 animals. is situated 1 mile northwest of Fort Stamford.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hooe and Mount Batten.

Suburb
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is a suburb of , in the English county of .

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

Suburb
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, formerly a village on the southern bank of the , is now a suburb of . It is recorded as Horestone on the 1591 Spry Map of Plimmouth.

Fort Stamford

Latitude
50.35457° or 50° 21′ 16″ north
Longitude
-4.11938° or 4° 7′ 10″ west
Open location code
9C2Q9V3J+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4945217522
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q17648974
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