Holt Wood

Holt Wood is a forest in Plymouth, England. Holt Wood is situated near the suburb Glenholt, as well as near Woolwell.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Derriford Hospital and Crownhill Fort.

Derriford Hospital

Hospital

Derriford Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, England. The hospital serves Plymouth and nearby areas of Devon and Cornwall. It also provides tertiary cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, renal transplant surgery, and immunology/allergy for the whole of the South West Peninsula.

Crownhill Fort

Castle

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth. Restored by the Landmark Trust, it is now home to several small businesses, museums, exhibitions and a holiday apartment sleeping up to eight people.

Estover Library

Library

Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eggbuckland and Southway.

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.

Southway

Suburb

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Southway is a large suburban housing estate in north-west Plymouth in the English county of Devon. The name is believed to have derived from the route into Plymouth often used by Buckland Abbey monks, which was known as the "South Way".

Plympton

Town

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.

Holt Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.4279° or 50° 25′ 41″ north

Longitude

-4.0977° or 4° 5′ 52″ west

Open location code

9C2QCWH2+5W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4961922444

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Glenholt and Woolwell.

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Highlights: West Wood and Darklake Wood.

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